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Markku-Juhani Saarinen
About me
I started as a cryptographer at SSH Communications Security in 1997 and I am still on that path. I have also worked in more general technical information security consulting and security assessment roles. I did my Ph.D. in the United Kingdom (ISG, Royal Holloway, University of London in 2009).
Responsibilities
In addition to regular academic tasks (research activities, teaching, supervision of theses, subject matter expert roles), a Professor of Practice in Information Security helps the university and its students to meet the evolving requirements of industry, businesses, and the state and acts as a technical contact person in research projects and curriculum development.
Fields of expertise
My core competencies are in applied cryptography, cryptographic engineering, and security assessments (including cryptanalysis.)
Latest publications
Mask Compression: High-Order Masking on Memory-Constrained Devices.
Saarinen, M.-J. O. & Rossi, M., 2024, Selected Areas in Cryptography – SAC 2023. Springer, p. 65-81 17 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 14201).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
High-Order Masking of Lattice Signatures in Quasilinear Time
Pino, R. D., Prest, T., Rossi, M. & Saarinen, M.-J. O., 2023, 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP). p. 1168-1185 18 p. (Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
WrapQ: Side-Channel Secure Key Management for Post-quantum Cryptography
Saarinen, M. J. O., 2023, Post-Quantum Cryptography - 14th International Workshop, PQCrypto 2023, Proceedings. Johansson, T., Smith-Tone, D. & Smith-Tone, D. (eds.). Springer, p. 637-657 21 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; vol. 14154 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Development of the RISC-V entropy source interface
Saarinen, M.-J. O., Newell, G. R. & Marshall, B., 2022, In: JOURNAL OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC ENGINEERING. 12, 4, p. 371-386 16 p., 4.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Building a Modern TRNG: An Entropy Source Interface for RISC-V
Saarinen, M. J. O., Newell, G. R. & Marshall, B., 13 Nov 2020, ASHES 2020 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security. p. 93-102 10 p. (ASHES 2020 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Mobile Energy Requirements of the Upcoming NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards
Saarinen, M. J., Aug 2020, Proceedings - 2020 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, MobileCloud 2020. p. 23-30 8 p. 9126751. (Proceedings - 2020 8th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Cloud Computing, Services, and Engineering, MobileCloud 2020).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
The design of scalar aes instruction set extensions for risc-v
Marshall, B., Newell, G. R., Page, D., Saarinen, M. J. O. & Wolf, C., 2020, In: IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. 2021, 1, p. 109-136 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Round5: compact and fast post-quantum public-key encryption
Baan, H., Bhattacharya, S., Fluhrer, S., Garcia-Morchon, O., Laarhoven, T., Rietman, R., Saarinen, M. J. O., Tolhuizen, L. & Zhang, Z., 2019, Post-Quantum Cryptography - 10th International Conference, PQCrypto 2019, Revised Selected Papers. Ding, J. & Steinwandt, R. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 83-102 20 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11505 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Shorter messages and faster post-quantum encryption with round5 on cortex M
Saarinen, M. J. O., Bhattacharya, S., Garcia-Morchon, O., Rietman, R., Tolhuizen, L. & Zhang, Z., 2019, Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications - 17th International Conference, CARDIS 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Bilgin, B., Bilgin, B. & Fischer, J.-B. (eds.). Springer Verlag, p. 95-110 16 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 11389 LNCS).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Scientific › peer-review
Arithmetic coding and blinding countermeasures for lattice signatures: Engineering a side-channel resistant post-quantum signature scheme with compact signatures
Saarinen, M. J. O., 1 Apr 2018, In: JOURNAL OF CRYPTOGRAPHIC ENGINEERING. 8, 1, p. 71-84 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review