Dr.-Ing. Sandeep Kumar

  • Former Assistant - Chair Embedded Security
Kumar, Sandeep

Address

Philips Research, Niederlande

Email:
kumar@crypto.rub.de PGP key
Website:
http://www.sandeepkumar.org/

Vita

  • July 1997- June 2001: Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay(IITB), India
  • July 2001- June 2002: Master of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay(IITB), India
  • Sept. 2002 - June 2006: Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Communication Security Group, Ruhr-University Bochum

Research

  • Hardware implementations of Elliptic Curve Cryptography(ECC)
  • Cryptography in constrained (low-area and low-power) environments
  • Hardware-Software Co-design for public-key cryptography
  • RFID security

Publications

2009
Secure IP-Block Distribution for Hardware Devices

Jorge Guajardo Merchan, Tim Güneysu, Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar - IEEE International Workshop on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, July 27, 2009

2007
A Survey of Lightweight Cryptography Implementations

Thomas Eisenbarth, Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar, Dipl.-Kfm. Axel Poschmann, L. Uhsadel - IEEE Design & Test of Computers -- Special Issue on Secure ICs for Secure Embedded Computing vol 24, no 6, pp 522-533, November 2007.

A State-of-the-art Elliptic Curve Cryptographic Processor Operating in the Frequency Domain

S. Baktir, Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar, B. Sunar - Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal, Special Issue on Next Generation Hardware Architectures for Secure Mobile Computing, vol 12, no 4, pp 259-270, September 2007.

2006
A Compact Implementation of Edon80

Markus Kasper, Sandeep Kumar, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Chris­tof Paar - The eSTREAM Project - eSTREAM Phase 3

Breaking Ciphers with COPACOBANA - A Cost-Optimized Parallel Code Breaker

Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar, Jan Pelzl, G. Pfeiffer, M. Schimmler - Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems - CHES 2006, 8th International Workshop, Yokohama, Japan, Proceedings. LNCS, Springer-Verlag, Oktober 10 - 13, 2006.

Optimum Digit Serial GF(2^m) Multipliers for Curve Based Cryptography

Sandeep Kumar, Thomas Wollinger, Chris­tof Paar - IEEE Transactions on Computers, Volume 55, Issue 10, pp. 1306-1311, October 2006.

Efficient Hardware Implementation of Finite Fields with Applications to Cryptography

Jorge Guajardo Merchan, Tim Güneysu, Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar, Jan Pelzl - Acta Applicandae Mathematicae: An International Survey Journal on Applying Mathematics and Mathematical Applications, Volume 93, Numbers 1-3, pp. 75-118, September 2006.

Efficient Software-Implementation of Finite Fields with Applications to Cryptography

Jorge Guajardo Merchan, Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar, Jan Pelzl - Acta Applicandae Mathematicae: An International Survey Journal on Applying Mathematics and Mathematical Applications, Volume 93, Numbers 1-3, pp. 3-32, September 2006.

Are standards compliant elliptic curve cryptosystems feasible on RFID?

Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar - Workshop on RFID Security 2006, Graz, Austria, Juli 2006.

A Configuration Concept for a Massive Parallel FPGA Architecture

Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar, Jan Pelzl, G. Pfeiffer, M. Schimmler - International Conference on Computer Design - CDES'06, Las Vegas,USA, Juni 26-29, 2006.

COPACOBANA - A Cost-Optimized Special-Purpose Hardware for Code-Breaking

Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar, Jan Pelzl, G. Pfeiffer, M. Schimmler - poster summary, IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines, FCCM 2006, Napa, CA,USA, April 24-26, 2006.

How to Break DES for Euro 8,980

Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar, Jan Pelzl, G. Pfeiffer, Andy Rupp, M. Schimmler - 2nd Workshop on Special-purpose Hardware for Attacking Cryptographic Systems - SHARCS 2006, Cologne, Germany, April 3-4, 2006.

Testing Framework for eSTREAM Profile II Candidates

L. Batina, Sandeep Kumar, J. Lano, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, N. Mentens, Chris­tof Paar, B. Preneel, K. Sakiyama, I. Verbauwhede - SASC 2006 - Stream Ciphers Revisited, Leuven, Belgium, February 2-3, 2006

2004
Some Thoughts about Implementation Properties of Stream Ciphers

Sandeep Kumar, Kerstin Lemke-Rust, Chris­tof Paar - SASC - State of the Art of Stream Ciphers Workshop, Brugge, Belgium, October 14-15, 2004.

Architectural Support for Arithmetic in Optimal Extension Fields

Johann Großschädl, Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar - IEEE 15th International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP) 2004, Galveston, Texas, September 27-29, 2004.

Reconfigurable Instruction Set Extension for enabling ECC on an 8-bit Processor

Sandeep Kumar, Chris­tof Paar - International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) 2004, Antwerp, Belgium, August 30 - September 1, 2004.

2003
Embedded End-to-End Wireless Security with ECDH Key Exchange

Sandeep Kumar, Marco Girimondo, André Weimerskirch, Chris­tof Paar, Arun Patel, Arvinderpal S.Wander - 46th IEEE Midwest Symposium On Circuits and Systems, Cairo , Egypt, December 27-30, 2003.

Efficient GF(pm) Arithmetic Architectures for Cryptographic Applications

G. Bertoni, Jorge Guajardo Merchan, Sandeep Kumar, G. Orlando, Chris­tof Paar, Thomas Wollinger - In Marc Joye (Ed.): The Cryptographers' Track at the RSA Conference - CT-RSA 2003, volume LNCS 2612, pp. 158-175, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 13-17, 2003.