Dr. Svetla Petkova-Nikova

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KU Leuven
ESAT-COSIC
Kasteelpark Arenberg 10
B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee
Belgium

Tel : +32 16 32 96 18
Fax : +32 16 32 19 69
E-mail : svetla.nikova@esat.kuleuven.be

I am a postdoctoral researcher in the research group COSIC in the Electrical Eng. Dept. of KU Leuven, Belgium.
Prior to that I was assistant professor in University of Twente, NL.
My Ph. D. degree is from Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands and
my M. Sc. degree is from Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia, Bulgaria.

NEWS!

I will be General Co-chair of EUROCRYPT 2015 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

The 5th edition of the Contact Forum "Coding Theory and Cryptography" will take place in the Flemish Academy of Sciences and Arts on October 4th, 2013.

Open PhD Position: Cryptography secured against side-channel attacks

Summer School: Design and Security of Cryptographic Functions, Algorithms and Devices, Albena, 30/06 - 05/07/2013

TI Tools for the 3x3 and 4x4 S-boxes

Selected Recent Publications

  • B. Bilgin, S. Nikova, V. Nikov, V. Rijmen and G. Stütz, Threshold Implementations of all 3x3 and 4x4 S-boxes, CHES 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7428, E. Prouff, and P. Schaumont (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 76-91, 2012.
  • S. Nikova, V. Rijmen, and M. Schläffer, Secure Hardware Implementation of Nonlinear Functions in the Presence of Glitches, Special Issue on Hardware and Security of Journal of Cryptology, Volume 24, Issue 2 (2011), pp. 292-319, 2011. [2.265]
    • Last modified: 01/06/2013