Michael Schneider, Dipl.-Inform., Dipl.-Math.

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Technische Universität Darmstadt
Fachbereich Informatik
Kryptographie und Computeralgebra
Hochschulstraße 10
64289 Darmstadt
Germany

Room: S2/02 B214

Phone: 06151/16-6168
Fax: 06151/16-6036

Email: mischnei - (at) - cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de

I am currently a Ph.D. student of Prof. Johannes Buchmann's research group.

Research Interests

  • Quantum Immune Cryptography
  • Lattice Basis Reduction
  • Parallelization, Graphics Cards
  • (Hash-based) Digital Signatures
  • Numerical Mathematics

Conference Publications ( dblp iacr )


  • Michael Schneider, Johannes Buchmann, Richard Lindner
    Probabilistic Analysis of LLL Reduced Bases [pdf]
    Accepted for the Post-Proceedings of the Western European Workshop on Research in Cryptology (WEWoRC), 2009.

  • Johannes Buchmann, Erik Dahmen, Michael Schneider
    Merkle Tree Traversal Revisited [pdf] [BibTeX]
    2nd International Workshop on Post-Quantum Cryptography - PQCrypto 2008,
    LNCS 5299, pp. 63-78, Spinger-Verlag, 2008.

Journal Articles (dblp)


  • Johannes Buchmann, Richard Lindner, Markus Rückert, Michael Schneider
    Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lattice Signatures [SpringerLink] [BibTeX]
    CECC 2008 - Computing Journal, Springer-Verlag, 2009.

Other Publications


  • Benjamin Milde, Michael Schneider
    Parallel Implementation of Classical Gram-Schmidt Orthogonalization on CUDA Graphics Cards [pdf]
    December 2009

  • Jens Hermans, Michael Schneider, Johannes Buchman, Frederik Vercauteren, Bart Preneel
    Shortest Lattice Vector Enumeration on Graphics Cards (Preliminary Version) [ePrint] [BibTeX]
    Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2009/601
    Presented at workshop Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems (SHARCS), 2009

  • Johannes Buchmann, Richard Lindner, Markus Rückert, Michael Schneider
    Explicit hard instances of the shortest vector problem - Revised version [ePrint] [BibTeX]
    Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2008/333
    Original version: PQCrypto 2008, LNCS 5299, pp. 79-94, Springer-Verlag, 2008.

  • Michael Schneider
    Improved Authentication Path Computation for Merkle Trees [pdf] [BibTeX]
    Diploma thesis, March 2008.

Talks

  • Lattice Reduction on Graphics Cards - University of Caen, January 2010
  • Lattice Basis Reduction and Lattice-Based Cryptography - An Introduction - National Taiwan University, November 2009
  • Probabilistic Analysis of LLL Reduced Bases - WEWoRC Graz - July 2009
  • Weak-LLL Reduced Bases - COSIC seminar K.U.Leuven - June 2009
  • Lecture Series: Predicting Lattice Reduction - Oberseminar TU Darmstadt - June 2009
  • Probabilistic Analysis of LLL Reduced Bases - Dagstuhl Seminar on Algorithms and Number Theory - May 2009

Projects

Research Visits

  • University of Caen, Caen, France, January 9-16, 2010
  • National Taiwan University, Taipeh, Taiwan, November 9-27, 2009
  • COSIC group, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, June 21-27, 2009

Supervised Theses

  • Chess reduction - Using Artificial Intelligence for Lattice Reduction - Diploma thesis - Annelie Heuser - in progress
  • Parallelization of Lattice Basis Reduction [pdf] - Diploma thesis - Özgür Dagdelen - May 2009

Teaching

Travels

Barcelona 2008 Lausanne 2009 Dagstuhl 2009
Leuven2009 Graz 2009 Berlin 2009
SHARCS Lausanne Taipei Caen
Research Retreat

Finally...

We love lattices

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