Herman Galteland
Ph.D. started in: 2015
Year of graduation: 2020
COINS consortium member: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Supervised by: Kristian Gjøsteen
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Research area: Secure Software
Project title: On the usage of cryptography in malware
Project description: We will study how we can use cryptography in various situations in malware. We want to study this because of the rising threat of such attacks, especially in eastern Europe, and want to the knowledge of what such attacks can be capable of.
Publications:
- Gareth Thomas Davies, Herman Galteland, Kristian Gjøsteen, Yao Jiang (2020). Cloud-assisted Asynchronous Key Transport with Post-Quantum Security
- Herman Galteland, Kristian Gjøsteen (2017). Malware, Encryption, and Rerandomization – Everything is Under Attack
- Herman Galteland, Stig Frode Mjølsnes, Ruxandra-Florentina Olimid (2017). Attacks on the Basic cMix Design: On the Necessity of Commitments and Randomized Partial Checking
- Herman Galteland, Kristian Gjøsteen (2016). Malware, Encryption, and Rerandomization – Everything is Under Attack
- Herman Galteland, Stig Frode Mjølsnes, Ruxandra-Florentina Olimid (2016). Attacks on cMix – Some Small Overlooked Details
Events attended with COINS funding:
- COINS Finse winter school, Finse, Norway, 2017
- ArcticCrypt, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, 2016
- COINS Summer School on Authentication, Metochi, Greece, 2016
- Crypto vs Mass Surveillance Workshop, Trondheim, Norway, 2016
