Talks (before 2025)

Older presentation slides, posters, etc.

• Keynote talk at AusQRC 2024 (November 18, 2024). Slides: “PQC Transition in Hardware: Processors, SoCs, IoT, Secure Elements”.

• Two talks at RISC-V Summit 2024 (October 21-23, 2024). Slides: “Marian: An Open-Source Implementation of the RISC-V Vector Cryptography Extension” and “Making the Case for a Keccak Instruction: Post-Quantum Cryptography on RVV”.

• Poster by T. Szymkowiak, E. Isufi, and M.-J. O. Saarinen at ACM CCS 2024 (October 14-18, 2024): “Marian: An Open Source RISC-V Processor with Zvk Vector Cryptography Extensions”. There’s a three-page abstract as an IACR e-Print. This will also appear in the proceedings.

• Invited talk at OPTIMIST 2024 (September 4, 2024). Slides: “Artifact Evaluation and Reproducibility (at CHES)”.

• Paper at CRYPTO 2024 (August 18-22, 2024): “Accelerating SLH-DSA by Two Orders of Magnitude with a Single Hash Unit” (M.-J. O. Saarinen). Artifact. GitHub. IACR e-Print. Slides 2024-08-22.

• Talk at NIST PQC 2024 (April 11, 2024). Slides: “Accelerating SLH-DSA by Two Orders of Magnitude with a Single Hash Unit”.

• Talk at Real World Crypto 2024 (March 25, 2024). Slides: “RISC-V Cryptography Evolution: High Assurance and Post-Quantum Cryptography” (M.-J. O. Saarinen, G. R. Newell, and N. Brunie).

• Talk at RISC-V Summit 2023 (November 8, 2023). Slides: “Benchmarking RISC-V Post-Quantum Crypto”.

• Talk at ICCC 2023 (November 1, 2023). Slides: “Post-Quantum vs. AVA_VAN”.

• Paper at PQCrypto 2023 (August 16-18, 2023): “WrapQ: Side-Channel Secure Key Management for Post-Quantum Cryptography” (M.-J. O. Saarinen). Slides 2023-08-18.

• Paper at SAC 2023 (August 16-18, 2023): “Mask Compression: High-Order Masking on Memory-Constrained Devices” (M.-J. O. Saarinen and M. Rossi). Slides 2023-08-16.

• Presentation in RISC-V Technical Sessions (June 29, 2023) Slides: “RISC-V Cryptography and Hardware Security”.

• Talk at RISC-V Summit Europe 2023 (June 5, 2023) Slides: “Cryptography Extensions Update”.

• Submission to NIST Call for Additional PQC Signatures (June 1, 2023): “Raccoon: A Side-Channel Secure Signature Scheme”. (R. del Pino, T. Espitau, S. Katsumata, M. Maller, F. Mouhartem, T. Prest, M. Rossi, and M.-J. O. Saarinen.)

• Submission to NIST Call for Additional PQC Signatures (June 1, 2023): “LESS: Linear Equivalence Signature Scheme”. (M. Baldi, A. Barenghi, L. Beckwith, J.-F. Biasse, A. Esser, K. Gaj, K. Mohajerani, G. Pelosi, E. Persichetti, M.-J. O. Saarinen, P. Santini, and R. Wallace.)

• Talk at IEEE SP 2023 (May 22, 2023) Slides: “High-Order Masking of Lattice Signatures in Quasilinear Time”. (R. del Pino, T. Prest, M. Rossi, and M.-J. O. Saarinen.)

• Talk at NIST PQC Seminars (April 4, 2023). Slides: “Intro to Side-Channel Security of NIST PQC Standards”.

• Talk at ETSI/IQC QSC9 (February 13-15, 2023). Slides: “PQC Side-Channel Leakage Assessments in the Semiconductor Industry”.

• Talk at RISC-V Summit 2022 (December 13-14, 2022). Slides: “RISC-V Zkt: Portable Timing Attack Resistance via Dynamic Taint Analysis”.

• Talk at ICMC 2022 (September 14-16, 2022). Slides: “Post-Quantum Crypto Side-Channel Tests and a CSP Walk-Through”.

• Short WiP paper at HOST 2022 (June 27-30, 2022): “WiP: Applicability of ISO Standard Side-Channel Leakage Tests to NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography” (M.-J. O. Saarinen).

• ECW / Implementing PQC Workshop. Rennes, France (November 18, 2021). Slides: “Specifying and Testing PQC Hardware Modules”.

• CHES 2021 (13-17 September, 2021): Paper: “The design of scalar AES Instruction Set Extensions for RISC-V” (B. Marshall, G. R. Newell, D. Page, M.-J. O. Saarinen, and C. Wolf).

• Real World Crypto ‘21 (January 13, 2021). Slides: “RISC-V Scalar Crypto” (M.-J. O. Saarinen and B. Marshall).