Thales Paiva

I finished my PhD at IME - USP in 2022.

While my main focus is on (post-quantum) Cryptography, I have a broad interest in Computer and Network Security.

Contact me using tpaiva at ime dot usp dot br.

Publications

  1. Defeating Low-Cost Countermeasures against Side-Channel Attacks in Lattice-based Encryption: A Case Study on Crystals-Kyber
    Coauthors: Prasanna Ravi, Dirmanto Jap, Jan-Pieter D’Anvers, and Shivam Bhasin
    Venue: CHES 2024
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  2. Faster Constant-Time Decoder for MDPC Codes and Applications to BIKE KEM
    Coauthor: Routo Terada
    Venue: CHES 2022
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  3. BGP Anomalies Classification using Features based on AS Relationship Graphs
    Coauthors: Yaissa Siqueira, Daniel Batista, Roberto Hirata Jr. and Routo Terada
    Venue: Latincom 2021
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  4. Cryptanalysis of the binary permuted kernel problem
    Coauthor: Routo Terada
    Venue: ACNS 2021
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  5. A timing attack on the HQC encryption scheme
    Coauthor: Routo Terada
    Venue: Selected Areas in Cryptography 2019
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  6. Robust covert channels based on DRAM power consumption
    Coauthors: Javier Navaridas and Routo Terada
    Venue: Information Security Conference 2019
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  7. Improving the efficiency of a reaction attack on the QC-MDPC McEliece
    Coauthor: Routo Terada
    Venue: IEICE TRANS. on Fundamentals 2018
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  8. Two algorithms to improve the reaction attack on the QC-MDPC McEliece
    Coauthor: Routo Terada
    Venue: SBSeg 2018 - CTD
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