Matthias J.
Kannwischer

PhD Student

Info

I'm a PhD student of Peter Schwabe and I am currently finalising my PhD thesis while being a researcher at the Institute of Information Science of Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.
Previously, I was at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy in Bochum, Germany and the Digital Security group at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
My second supervisor is Bo-Yin Yang of the Institute of Information Science at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
My current research focus is real-world post-quantum cryptography covering implementation and implementation attacks.
I'm one of the submitters of the Rainbow Signature Scheme which is one of the three NISTPQC signature finalists.
Previously, I was working with Liqun Chen at the University of Surrey.
Before that, I completed my MSc in IT Security at TU Darmstadt. My Master Thesis about implementation attack vulnerabilities of hash-based signatures was supervised by Juliane Krämer and Denis Butin.

Research Interests

• Post-Quantum Cryptography
• Efficient implementation
• Side-channel and fault attacks

Publications and Technical Reports

• ePrint July 2021Multi-moduli NTTs for Saber on Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4, Amin Abdulrahman, Jiun-Peng Chen, Yu-Jia Chen, Vincent Hwang, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Bo-Yin Yang [paper|code]
• ePrint July 2021Neon NTT: Faster Dilithium, Kyber, and Saber on Cortex-A72 and Apple M1, Hanno Becker, Vincent Hwang, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Bo-Yin Yang, and Shang-Yi Yang [paper|code]
• PQCrypto'21Verifying Post-Quantum Signatures in 8 KiB of RAM, Ruben Gonzalez, Andreas Hülsing, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Juliane Krämer, Tanja Lange, Marc Stöttinger, Elisabeth Waitz, Thom Wiggers, and Bo-Yin Yang, PQCrypto 2021 [paper|code]
• TCHES'21Rainbow on Cortex-M4, Tung Chou, Matthias J. Kannwischer, and Bo-Yin Yang, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) 2021 Issue 4 [paper|preprint20210421|code|shortslides|longslides|talk]
• TCHES'21 NTT Multiplication for NTT-unfriendly Rings, Chi-Ming Marvin Chung, Vincent Hwang, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Gregor Seiler, Cheng-Jhih Shih, Bo-Yin Yang, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) 2021 Issue 2 [paper|preprint20201110|code|slides|talk]
• TCHES'21 Compact Dilithium Implementations on Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M4, Denisa O. C. Greconici, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Daan Sprenkels, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) 2021 Issue 1 [paper|code|slides|talk]
• FDTC'20 Trouble at the CSIDH: Protecting CSIDH with Dummy-Operations against Fault Injection Attacks, Fabio Campos, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Michael Meyer, Hiroshi Onuki, and Marc Stöttinger, FDTC 2020 [paper|code|slides|talk]
• TCHES'20 Single-Trace Attacks on Keccak, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Peter Pessl, and Robert Primas, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) 2020 Issue 3 [paper|code|slides|talk]
• NISTPQC'19 pqm4: Testing and Benchmarking NISTPQC on ARM Cortex-M4, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Joost Rijneveld, Peter Schwabe, and Ko Stoffelen, Second NIST PQC Standardization Conference [paper|slides|code]
• Africacrypt'19 Memory-Efficient High-Speed Implementation of Kyber on Cortex-M4, Leon Botros, Matthias J. Kannwischer, and Peter Schwabe, Africacrypt 2019 [paper|slides|code]
• ACNS'19 Faster multiplication in ℤ_2^m[x] on Cortex-M4 to speed up NIST PQC candidates, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Joost Rijneveld, and Peter Schwabe, ACNS 2019 (Best Student Paper Award) [paper|preprint20181019|slides|code]
• Kangacrypt'18 Practical Fault Injection Attacks on SPHINCS, Aymeric Genêt, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Hervé Pelletier, and Andrew McLauchlan, Kangacrypt 2018 [paper|preprint20180710|slides]
• COSADE'18 Differential Power Analysis of XMSS and SPHINCS, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Aymeric Genêt, Denis Butin, Juliane Krämer, and Johannes Buchmann, COSADE 2018: 168-188 [paper|slides]

Software

• PQClean Clean implementations of NISTPQC candidates [code]
• pqm4 Testing and benchmarking framework for PQC on the ARM Cortex-M4 [code]
• pqriscv Testing and benchmarking framework for PQC on various RISC-V cores [code]
• EFM32-getting-started Getting Starteed with the EFM32GG11 (Silicon Lab's Giant Gecko Starter Kit) [code]
• xmssfs Forward Secure Implementation of the BDS Algorithm for XMSS and XMSS^MT [code]
• rainbowm4 ARM Cortex-M4 implementation of the Rainbow signature scheme [code]

Reviewing

• 2022 Artifact review committee for TCHES 2022
• 2021 Reviewer for TCHES 2021 and ACNS 2021
• 2020 Reviewer for AsiaCCS 2020, IEEE TCAS1, and SPACE 2020
• 2019 Reviewer for EuroS&P 2019, CARDIS 2019, and IEEE TCAS1
• 2018 Reviewer for ESORICS 2018, Kangacrypt 2018, and Indocrypt 2018

Talks and Posters

• 17 Sep 2021 Rainbow on Cortex-M4, CHES 2021 [longslides|shortslides]
• 07 Jun 2021 pqm4: NISTPQC Round 3 Results on the Cortex-M4, Third PQC Standardization Conference [slides]
• 07 Jun 2021 Rainbow on Cortex-M4, Third PQC Standardization Conference [slides]
• 16 Apr 2021 Introduction to Cortex-{M4,A7,A53,A72}, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan [slides]
• 27 Jan 2021 Post-Quantum Cryptography, NATO LCMG Workshop [slides]
• 11 May 2020 An Introduction to the Cortex-M4, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan [slides]
• 27 Sep 2019 Embedded Post-Quantum Crypto: pqm4 and Kyber on Cortex-M4, DS Lunch Colloquium, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands [slides]
• 24 Aug 2019 pqm4: Testing and Benchmarking NISTPQC on ARM Cortex-M4, Second PQC Standardization Conference, Santa Barbara, USA [slides]
• 10 Jul 2019 Memory-Efficient High-Speed Implementation of Kyber on Cortex-M4, Africacrypt 2019, Rabat, Morocco [slides]
• 06 Jun 2019 Faster multiplication in ℤ_2^m[x] on Cortex-M4 to speed up NIST PQC candidates, ACNS 2019, Bogota, Colombia [slides]
• 02 May 2019 pqm4: Benchmarking PQC on the Cortex-M4, NIST, Gaithersburg, USA [slides]
• 14/15 Mar 2019 Introduction to Post-Quantum Cryptography, DHBW Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany [slides|handoutslides]
• 07 Jan 2019 Faster multiplication in ℤ_2^m[x] on Cortex-M4 to speed up NIST PQC candidates, Cryptography Research Inc., San Francisco, USA [slides]
• 15 Nov 2018 Building and Breaking Post-Quantum Cryptography, RheinMain University of Applied Sciences, Wiesbaden, Germany [slides|handoutslides]
• 09 Nov 2018 Faster multiplication in ℤ_2^m[x] on Cortex-M4 to speed up NIST PQC candidates, Crypto Working Group, Utrecht, The Netherlands [slides]
• 03 Sep 2018 Fast Ideal Lattice-Based KEMs on ARM Cortex-M4, School on Security & Correctness in the Internet of Things 2018 - PhD Forum, Graz, Austria [slides]
• 06 Jun 2018Breaking Lattice-Based Signatures Using Fault Injection, Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, Guildford, United Kingdom
• 24 Apr 2018Differential Power Analysis of XMSS and SPHINCS, 9th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE), Singapore [paper|slides]
• 16 Apr 2018Differential Power Analysis of XMSS and SPHINCS, CRYPTACUS Training School - PhD Session, Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal [poster|pitch slides|extended abstract]
• 27 Mar 2018Differential Power Analysis and Fault Attacks on Hash-Based Signature Schemes, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands [slides]
• 16 Mar 2018 Differential Power Analysis of XMSS and SPHINCS, DS lunch colloquium, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands [slides]
• 16 Feb 2018NIST PQC, Secure Systems Reading Group, Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, Guildford, United Kingdom
• 25 Jan 2018 Practical Post-Quantum Cryptography for Trusted Computing, Workshop on Trusted Computing and its Applications (TCA), Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, Guildford, United Kingdom [slides]
• 15 Dec 2017 Practical Lattice-Based Cryptography and Kyber - a CCA-secure KEM, Secure Systems Reading Group, Surrey Centre for Cyber Security, Guildford, United Kingdom
• 21 Sep 2017 Physical Attack Vulnerability of Hash-Based Signature Schemes, CDC Oberseminar, TU Darmstadt, Germany

Teaching

• 2021 Guest lecture on Cortex-{M4,A7,A53,A72} at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
• Bachelor thesis co-supervision: Amin Abdulrahman
• Master thesis co-supervision: Jasper Haasdijk
• 2020 Teaching assistant for NWI-IMC039: Cryptographic Engineering taught by Lejla Batina and Peter Schwabe
  • Slides of the lecture An introduction to the Cortex M4 are available on the course website.
  • Sample code for the tutorial on How to find timing leaks in cryptographic software is available here.
• 2019 Teaching assistant for NWI-IPC021: Security taught by Joan Daemen and Zekeriya Erkin
• Teaching assistant for NWI-IMC039: Cryptographic Engineering taught by Lejla Batina and Peter Schwabe
• Guest lecture on Post-Quantum Cryptography at DHBW Stuttgart
• 2018 Teaching assistant for NWI-IPC021: Security taught by Bart Jacobs and Joan Daemen
• Guest lecture on Post-Quantum Cryptography at RheinMain University of Applied Sciences
• Teaching assistant for COMM036: Multimedia Security and Digital Forensics taught by Kaitai Liang
• 2017 Teaching assistant for COMM037: Information Security Managament taught by David Williams
• Bachelor thesis supervision: Felix Schabernack