Souradyuti Paul

Souradyuti Paul (born 1976) is an Indian cryptologist. Formerly a member of COSIC, he is currently working as an associate professor at Indian Institute of Technology Bhilai[1] and a Guest Researcher for the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States. He participated in cryptanalysis of RC4, Helix and Py family of ciphers among others. He has co-designed the following ciphers

Souradyuti Paul
NationalityIndiaIndian
Alma materKatholieke Universiteit Leuven
Indian Statistical Institute
Jadavpur University
Known forHash Functions
Cryptanalysis
Fast Wide-pipe Hash Mode
Stream Ciphers
Scientific career
FieldsCryptography
InstitutionsIndian Institute of Technology Bhilai
University of Waterloo
NIST
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Doctoral advisorBart Preneel
Websitehttp://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~psourady/

He also contributed to the design of a hash function iteration mode of operation Fast-widepipe.[2] While working at NIST Dr. Paul has worked towards the development of US government secure hash standard SHA-3 being selected through a public competition.[3]

References
  1. "Souradyuti Paul | IIT Gandhinagar". www.iitgn.ac.in. Retrieved 2018-12-12.
  2. Mridul Nandi and Souradyuti Paul. Speeding Up the Widepipe: Secure and Fast Hashing. In Guang Gong and Kishan Gupta, editor, Indocrypt 2010, Springer, 2010.
  3. "Cryptographic Hash Algorithm Competition". 13 May 2009.


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