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Elisabeth Oswald

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Elisabeth Oswald
Born
Wolfsberg, Carinthia
Alma materGraz University of Technology
Scientific career
FieldsCryptography
Thesis On Side-Channel Attacks and the Application of Algorithmic Countermeasures  (2003)
Reinhard Posch

Maria Elisabeth Oswald is an Austrian cryptographer known for her work on side-channel attacks including power analysis and on implementations of cryptosystems that are resistant to these attacks.[1] She is a professor at the University of Klagenfurt and at the University of Birmingham.[2]

Education and career

Oswald is originally from Wolfsberg, Carinthia. She studied mathematics and information processing at the Graz University of Technology,[3] completing her Ph.D. there in 2003 with the dissertation On Side-Channel Attacks and the Application of Algorithmic Countermeasures supervised by Reinhard Posch.[4]

She started working at the University of Bristol in 2006 as a lecturer, and later became Professor in Applied Cryptography there.[5] She moved to Klagenfurt in 2019,[3] describing herself as a "Brexit refugee".[1] She continues to be affiliated with the University of Bristol as an Honorary Professor.[6] Since 2023 she has taken up a professorial position at the University of Birmingham. [2]

Book

With Stefan Mangard and Thomas Popp, Oswald is a coauthor of the book Power Analysis Attacks: Revealing the Secrets of Smartcards (Springer, 2007).[7]

References

  1. "Man kann alles attackieren" [You can attack anything], Neue Vorarlberger Tageszeitung (in German), 27 December 2019
  2. Professor Elisabeth Oswald, University of Birmingham, retrieved 2024-05-06
  3. The University of Klagenfurt makes the first professorial appointment to the Digital Age Research Center (D!ARC): Elisabeth Oswald, who specializes in researching cybersecurity, arrives in Klagenfurt, University of Klagenfurt, 24 September 2019, retrieved 2020-09-30
  4. Elisabeth Oswald at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. Dr Maria Oswald, University of Bristol, retrieved 2020-09-30
  6. "Dr Maria Oswald, Honorary Professor", Faculty of Engineering People, University of Bristol, retrieved 2020-09-30
  7. Tisserand, Arnaud (2010), "Review of Power Analysis Attacks" (PDF), IACR Book Reviews, International Association for Cryptologic Research