Bor de Kock

Hi! My name is Bor and I'm an assistant professor of cryptology at the Department of Information Security and Communication Technology at The Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim. My primary research interest is Post-Quantum Cryptography, specifically Key Exchange in its various forms – but I'm always excited about working with other cryptographic topics.

Research

• Practical Isogeny-Based Key-exchange with Optimal Tightness
  Bor de Kock, Kristian Gjøsteen and Mattia Veroni. Published at SAC2020. ePrint version
• Symmetric Key Exchange with Full Forward Security and Robust Synchronization
  Colin Boyd, Gareth T. Davies, Bor de Kock, Kai Gellert, Tibor Jager and Lise Millerjord. Published at Asiacrypt 2021. ePrint version
• Modular Design of KEM-Based Authenticated Key Exchange
  Colin Boyd, Lise Millerjord and Bor de Kock. To be published at ACISP 2023. ePrint version
• Swoosh: Practical Lattice-Based Non-Interactive Key Exchange
  Phillip Gajland, Bor de Kock, Miguel Quaresma, Giulio Malavolta and Peter Schwabe. In Submission. ePrint version

My PhD thesis (submitted, but not yet defended) consists of the above four papers.

My Master's Thesis:

• A Non-Interactive Key Exchange based on Ring-Learning With Errors
  Written at TNO, under supervision of Tanja Lange. TU/e Repository

Previous education

In Spring 2018 I received a Master of Science degree from Eindhoven University of Technology

• Master track: The TRU/e Master on Information Security Technology, part of the Computer Science and Engineering program.
• Spent spring 2017 in the US, doing a cryptology research project at the University of Pennsylvania, supervised by Nadia Heninger.

Before that, I obtained a Bachelor of Science degree from Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands

• Major: Computer Science & Engineering
• Minor: Linguistics, at the University of Amsterdam

Other activities

At TU Eindhoven I have been an elected member of the departmental council (at the department of Mathematics and Computer Science) and the university council, for student party Groep-één. At NTNU in Trondheim I was an elected member of the faculty board (at the Faculty of Information Technology and Electical Engineering).

I was on the provincial board of Jonge Socialisten in de PvdA, the youth organization of the Dutch Labour Party and have been involved in GEWIS, the student union for mathematicians and computer scientists, where I have also served as a full-time board member for a year. When I'm not talking about math or politics I play (classical) music, for instance at symphony orchestra Ensuite or Studentersamfundets Symfoniorkester.

Contact

Mail: firstname @ this domain, or bor.restofmyname @ ntnu.no. PGP ID: 44985A89

Actual mail: Bor de Kock c/o Dept. of IIK, Postboks 8900, Torgarden, 7491 Trondheim.

Office: NTNU Gløshaugen, Elektro A267.

Twitter: @BordeKock

LinkedIn: /in/BordeKock (but I really like my job).