Assistant Professor
I was born in the city of Salvador, capital of the State of Bahia, Brazil. I obtained my BSc in Physics in 1987, received my Ph.D. degree in Engineering in 2003 and my Habilitation in Computer Engineering in 2011, all at the University of São Paulo. I worked at Unisys Brazil Ltd and Scopus Tecnologia S/A as systems software analyst and developer, and then as chief cryptographer. I joined the faculty at the Department of Computer and Digital Systems Engineering, Escola Politécnica, University of São Paulo in 2004 as Assistant Professor, and became Associate Professor there in 2011. I finally joined the faculty as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Technology, University of Seattle Tacoma, on September 1st, 2015.
I am one of the designers of the Whirlpool hash function (ISO/IEC 10118-3), as well as several other symmetric primitives (block ciphers, authenticated encryption modes and key derivation functions). I have co-authored extensive research work on elliptic curve cryptography and pairing-based cryptography, including efficient bilinear pairing algorithms (e.g. the BKLS and 𝜂𝑇 techniques), identity-based cryptographic protocols (e.g. the BLMQ signature and signcrytion methods), and the construction of pairing- friendly elliptic curves (e.g. the BN and BLS families of elliptic curves), many of them adopted in ISO-IEC 15946-5. More recently I have been working on efficient algorithms for quantum-resistant (also called post-quantum) cryptosystems, including code-based, lattice-based, hash-based and multivariate schemes
I have served in 23 PhD defense committees (7 of which outside Brazil) and 27 MSc defense committees since 2005. I supervised to completion 3 PhD theses (since 2010) and 8 MSc theses (since 2008). I also served in the program committees of almost 60 conferences over the past ten years, and I am a member of the Steering Committee of the Latincrypt series of conferences (whose first installment I co-chaired) and the ASCrypto series of advanced schools in cryptography. Furthermore, I am an Associated Editor of the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering (since 2011), IEEE Transactions on Computers (since 2015), and IET Information Security (since 2015).
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About Paulo Barreto
I was born in the city of Salvador, capital of the State of Bahia, Brazil. I obtained my BSc in Physics in 1987, received my Ph.D. degree in Engineering in 2003 and my Habilitation in Computer Engineering in 2011, all at the University of São Paulo. I worked at Unisys Brazil Ltd and Scopus Tecnologia S/A as systems software analyst and developer, and then as chief cryptographer. I joined the faculty at the Department of Computer and Digital Systems Engineering, Escola Politécnica, University of São Paulo in 2004 as Assistant Professor, and became Associate Professor there in 2011. I finally joined the faculty as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Technology, University of Seattle Tacoma, on September 1st, 2015.
I am one of the designers of the Whirlpool hash function (ISO/IEC 10118-3), as well as several other symmetric primitives (block ciphers, authenticated encryption modes and key derivation functions). I have co-authored extensive research work on elliptic curve cryptography and pairing-based cryptography, including efficient bilinear pairing algorithms (e.g. the BKLS and 𝜂𝑇 techniques), identity-based cryptographic protocols (e.g. the BLMQ signature and signcrytion methods), and the construction of pairing- friendly elliptic curves (e.g. the BN and BLS families of elliptic curves), many of them adopted in ISO-IEC 15946-5. More recently I have been working on efficient algorithms for quantum-resistant (also called post-quantum) cryptosystems, including code-based, lattice-based, hash-based and multivariate schemes
I have served in 23 PhD defense committees (7 of which outside Brazil) and 27 MSc defense committees since 2005. I supervised to completion 3 PhD theses (since 2010) and 8 MSc theses (since 2008). I also served in the program committees of almost 60 conferences over the past ten years, and I am a member of the Steering Committee of the Latincrypt series of conferences (whose first installment I co-chaired) and the ASCrypto series of advanced schools in cryptography. Furthermore, I am an Associated Editor of the Journal of Cryptographic Engineering (since 2011), IEEE Transactions on Computers (since 2015), and IET Information Security (since 2015).
| Present | Assistant Professor, University of Washington Tacoma ‐ Institute of Technology | |
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Disciplines
Research Interests
Design and analysis of block ciphers, modes of operation for block ciphers, and hash functions, Cryptography sponges and password derivation schemes, Efficient algorithms for pairing-based cryptosystems, Identity-based key agreement schemes, digital signatures and signcryption from bilinear pairings, Construction of pairing-friendly elliptic curves, Efficient and side-channel-resistant implementation of pairings and elliptic curve cryptography, Code-based encryption, Hash-based digital signatures, and Lattice-based and homomorphic cryptosystems
Courses
- Undergraduate Seminar in CSS
- Compiler Construction
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms
- Advanced Algorithms
| 2011 | University of Sao Paulo, Brazil ‐ Habilitation in Computer Engineering | |
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| 2003 | Ph.D, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil ‐ Engineering | |
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| 1987 | B.Sc., University of Sao Paulo, Brazil ‐ Physics | |
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