Ralf-Philipp Weinmann

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TU Darmstadt
Department of Computer Science
Cryptography and Computer Algebra
Hochschulstraße 10
64289 Darmstadt, Germany

Room: S2/02 B209

Tel.: 06151/16-6628
Fax: 06151/16-6036

Email: weinmann AT cdc DOT informatik DOT tu-darmstadt DOT de

I'm a member of Prof. Johannes Buchmann's research group cryptography & computer algebra at the Darmstadt University of Technology. Should you choose to contact me, note that encrypted email is preferred. A current PGP key (0xEFCD9B06) can be found on the usual key servers.

Research Interests

  • Cryptanalysis of symmetric cryptographic primitives
  • Algebraic properties and representations of cryptographic systems
  • Efficient computation of Gröbner bases
  • Multivariate cryptography

Publications

  • Ulrich Kühn, Andrei Pyshkin, Erik Tews, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann: Variants of Bleichenbacher's Low-Exponent Attack on PKCS#1 RSA Signatures
    SICHERHEIT 2008, LNI, pp. 97-109, GI-Verlag
  • Erik Tews, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, Andrei Pyshkin: Breaking 104 bit WEP in less than 60 seconds
    WISA 2007, LNCS 4867, pp. 188-202, Springer-Verlag (alternative version on the IACR ePrint Archive: Report 2007/120)
  • Fen Liu, Wen Ji, Lei Hu, Jintai Ding, Shuwang Lv, Andrei Pyshkin, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann: Analysis of the SMS4 block cipher
    ACISP 2007, LNCS 4586, pp. 158-170, Springer-Verlag [pdf available through SpringerLink]
  • Johannes Buchmann, Andrei Pyshkin, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann: A Zero-Dimensional Groebner Basis for AES-128
    FSE 2006, LNCS 4047, pp. 78-88, Springer-Verlag, [pdf available through SpringerLink]
  • Johannes Buchmann, Andrei Pyshkin, Ralf-Philipp Weinmann: Block Ciphers Sensitive to Groebner Basis Attacks
    CT-RSA 2006, LNCS 3860, pp. 313-331, Springer-Verlag, [pdf available trough SpringerLink]
  • Ralf-Philipp Weinmann, Kai Wirt: Analysis of the DVB Common Scrambling Algorithm
    CMS 2004, Proceedings of the 8th IFIP TC-6 TC-11 Conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, Springer-Verlag, [pdf]
  • Ralf-Philipp Weinmann: Evaluating Algebraic Attacks on the AES (diploma thesis) [pdf]

Teaching

  • Bachelorpraktikum: Kryptographie (SS2005)
  • Blockseminar: Symmetrische Kryptographie (SS2005)
  • Blockseminar: Symmetrische Kryptographie (WS2005/2006)
  • Blockseminar: Symmetrische Kryptographie (SS2006)
  • Blockseminar: Symmetrische Kryptographie (WS2006/2007)

Misc

Blog on cryptanalysis

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