Oussama Danba

Senior Cryptography Firmware Engineer - PQShield

I've been at PQShield since October 2019 as a Senior Cryptography Firmware Engineer. My primary focus at this moment is Post-Quantum Cryptography on embedded systems and custom hardware. My interests primarily lie within practical aspects of cryptography but I am open to other aspects of cryptography. Here's a recent version of my CV.

I've obtained my Master's degree from the Radboud University. My Master consisted almost exclusively of cryptography courses with some software science electives. For my thesis I worked on the AVX2 implementation of NTRU which was a finalist for the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization effort.

Previous work

Below is a brief list of work I have done in the past. Some of this work is done as part of a team while other work was done on my own.

Kyber, Dilithium, Saber, and NTRU embedded implementations in C making use of hardware accelerators designed and developed at PQShield. Data-independent execution and side-channel countermeasures along with meeting customer performance and memory requirements.
Work on Post-Quantum Secure Element known as PQSoC. Mostly in the form of instruction set extensions and accompanying hardware circuitry.
Implementation, verification, and optimization of Post-Quantum algorithms on PQSoC.
Side-Channel attacks and countermeasures along with configurating oscilloscopes, target boards, and building the physical setups. Additionally, creation of software tooling to interact with the setups for automation purposes.
Proof of Concept Post-Quantum support in IPsec VPNs. The open source part of this work can be found at PQShield's GitHub.