Tjerand Silde

Hi! I am an Associate Professor in Cryptology at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
in Trondheim, where I am the Research Group Leader of the NTNU Applied Cryptology Lab.

I am also a Security and Cryptography Expert at the cybersecurity company Pone Biometrics.

My main foci of research are lattice-based cryptography and zero-knowledge protocols. My interests also span the areas of post-quantum cryptography, anonymous communication, multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption, electronic voting and secure implementation.

I am a member of the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR).

News:

• Two-Round Threshold Lattice-Based Signatures from Threshold Homomorphic Encryption is accepted to PQCrypto 2024! Joint work with Kamil Doruk Gur and Jonathan Katz.
• BRAKE: Biometric Resilient Authenticated Key Exchange is accepted to IEEE Access! Joint work with Pia Bauspieß, Matej Poljuha, Alexandre Tullot and Anamaria Costache.
• I am on the program committee for ArcticCrypt. Submit your best papers for presentation!
• I am on the IACR Communications in Cryptology editorial board. Submit your best papers!
• I will be the general co-chair for IACR PKC 2025 in Røros together with Bor de Kock!
• I am organising a workshop on Foundations and Applications of Zero-Knowledge Proofs together with Elizabeth Crites, Markulf Kohlweiss, and Akira Takahashi at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh from September 2nd to 6th, 2024.
• I started as an Associate Professor in Cryptology at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at NTNU on September 1st, 2022.

I support the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Tor Project and the Signal Foundation.