Souradyuti Paul

Souradyuti Paul
Residence	Washington DC, United States
Nationality	Indian
Fields	Cryptography
Institutions	Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar University of Waterloo NIST Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Alma mater	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Indian Statistical Institute Jadavpur University
Known for	Hash Functions Cryptanalysis Fast Wide-pipe Hash Mode Stream Ciphers NIST SHA-3 Competition
Website http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~psourady/

Souradyuti Paul is an Indian cryptologist (b. 1976). Formerly a member of COSIC, he is currently working as an assistant professor at Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar and a Guest Researcher for the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States. He participated in cryptanalysis of RC4, Helix and Py family of ciphers among others. He has co-designed the following ciphers

He also contributed to the design of a hash function iteration mode of operation Fast-widepipe. While working at NIST Dr. Paul has worked towards the development of US government secure hash standard SHA-3 being selected through a public competition.

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