Dr. rer. nat. Enrico Thomae
Mathematician and Cryptanalyst
01/2010 to 06/2013 member of the
Department of IT-Security and Cryptology
Ruhr-University Bochum
E-Mail: Enrico.Thomae(at)rub.de
Research Topics
Post-Quantum Cryptography
- Multivariate Cryptosystems
- Code-based Cryptosystems
- Lattice-based Cryptosystems
Algebraic Cryptanalysis
- XL and Groebner based Algorithms
- Symmetric Ciphers
Publications & Thesis
2013
- Enrico Thomae, About the Security of Multivariate Quadratic Public Key Schemes
Dissertation PDF
2012
- Enrico Thomae, Quo Vadis Quaternion? Cryptanalysis of Rainbow over Non-Commutative Rings
In Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2012. Slides - Peter Czypek, Stefan Heyse and Enrico Thomae, Efficient Implementations of MQPKS on Constrained Devices
In Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2012. - Enrico Thomae and Christopher Wolf, Cryptanalysis of Enhanced TTS, STS and all its Variants, or: Why Cross-Terms are Important
In International Conference on Cryptology in Africa (AfricaCrypt 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2012. Slides - Enrico Thomae and Christopher Wolf, Solving Underdetermined Systems of Multivariate Quadratic Equations revisited
In Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptography (PKC 2012), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2012. PDF Magma-Code
2011
- Alexander May, Alexander Meurer and Enrico Thomae, Decoding Random Linear Codes in O(2^{0.054n}).
In Advances in Cryptology (Asiacrypt 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2011. PDF - Albrecht Petzoldt, Enrico Thomae, Stanislav Bulygin and Christopher Wolf, Small Public Keys and Fast Verification for Multivariate Quadratic Public Key Systems
In Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2011. PDF - Enrico Thomae and Christopher Wolf, Roots of Square: Cryptanalysis of Double-Layer Square and Square+
In Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQCrypto 2011), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 2011. PDF - Enrico Thomae and Christopher Wolf, Theoretical Analysis and Run Time Complexity of MutantXL
In International Conference Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering (CMMSE 2011), 2011. PDF
2009
- Permutationspolynome in der Kryptographie (Diploma Thesis)