Aikata Aikata

Dipl.-Ing. B.Tech.

Secure Systems, PhD Candidate

Aikata is in her 3rd year of PhD 🎓✨. She received her Master's degree (with distinction) in Computer Science from TU Graz in 2022 and her master's thesis, titled “Efficient Polynomial Arithmetic Architecture for Saber and Dilithium” received the 1st prize in the TU Graz Forum Technology and Society 2022. She did her bachelor's in technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhilai in Computer Science. She intends to explore lattice-based cryptography applications and Europe during her Ph.D.   Aikata recently won all the initial three FHERMA challenges. FHERMA is a platform for Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) challenges jointly developed by Fair Math and the OpenFHE teams. The main goal of the project is to develop an open-source library of FHE components. The initial focus will be on components for Machine Learning and Blockchain applications.

Bachelor thesis Students
1. Tatiana Kirillova PPT
2. Simon Mussbacher PPT
3. Sabrina Schunn PPT
4. Emira Salkic
Master thesis Students
1. Daniel Sanz Sobrino PPT
2. Vid Smole
3. Ian Khodachenko
Aikata Aikata

Publications

Backdooring Post-Quantum Cryptography: Kleptographic Attacks on Lattice-based KEMs

Ravi P., Bhasin S., Chattopadhyay A., Aikata A., Sinha Roy S.
GLSVLSI '24: Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2024, 34th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, 216 - 221

ModHE: Modular Homomorphic Encryption Using Module Lattices

Mukherjee A., Aikata A., Mert A., Lee Y., Kwon S., Deriyabin M., Sinha Roy S.
IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Vol. 2024(1), 527-562

REPQC: Reverse Engineering and Backdooring Hardware Accelerators for Post-quantum Cryptography

Pagliarini S., Aikata A., Imran M., Sinha Roy S.
AsiaCCS

Exploring the Advantages and Challenges of Fermat NTT in FHE Acceleration

Kim A., Mert A., Mukherjee A., Aikata A., Deryabin M., Kwon S., Kang H., Sinha Roy S.
44th Annual International Cryptology Conference - CRYPTO 2024, 44th Annual International Cryptology Conference

Secure and Efficient Outsourced Matrix Multiplication with Homomorphic Encryption

Aikata A., Sinha Roy S.
Indocrypt 2024, Indocrypt 2024

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