Ruhr-University Bochum
Faculty of Computer Science
Network Data Security
Universitätsstr. 150
44801 Bochum
Room: MC 4/110
Tel: +49 (0)234 32-26692
E-Mail: joerg.schwenk@rub.de
Office hours: By Arrangement
Table of Contents
Courses
- 141251 : Aktuelle Themen im Bereich der Internet-Sicherheit
- 212012 : Netzsicherheit 1
- 211013 : Netzsicherheit 2
- 212420 : Industriepraktikum ITS
- 211038 : Authentische Schlüsselvereinbarung: Formale Modelle und Anwendungen
- 141201 : TLS CASA Vorlesung
- 140015 : Lehrveranstaltungen über das UNIC-Programm
- 212121 : Bachelor-Seminar Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 212121 : Master-Seminar Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 212412 : Master-Projekt Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 212413 : Master-Praktikum zur Hackertechnik
- 212413 : Bachelor-Praktikum zur Hackertechnik
- 212414 : Bachelor-Praktikum TLS Implementierung
- 212414 : Master-Praktikum TLS Implementierung
- 147515 : Kolloquium Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 140001 : Anpassungsfächer
- 212412 : Bachelor-Projekt Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 141245 : Web-Sicherheit
- 148207 : Algebraische Codierung für die sichere Datenübertragung
- 148229 : Digitale Signaturen
- 142248 : Master-Praktikum Security Appliances
- 143245 : Master-Seminar Digitale Signaturen
Curriculum Vitae
- seit 2003: Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Netz- und Datensicherheit an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
- 2007 – 2010: Geschäftsführender Direktor des Horst Görtz Instituts für IT Sicherheit
- seit 2007: Stellv. Geschäftsführender Direktor des Rechenzentrums der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Publications
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Publications
Marcus Brinkmann, Nicolai Kraus, Alexander May
Halfspace Learning for Lattice Signature Key Recovery from Signs Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Cryptology (CRYPTO 26), 2026.
Schlagwörter: Crypto Flagship, Rank A*/A
@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Halfspace Learning for Lattice Signature Key Recovery from Signs},
author = {Marcus Brinkmann and Nicolai Kraus and Alexander May },
year = {2026},
date = {2026-08-01},
urldate = {2026-08-01},
booktitle = {Advances in Cryptology (CRYPTO 26)},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
keywords = {Crypto Flagship, Rank A*/A},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Alexander May, Gabriel Sá Diogo
Multi-Instance Security Degradation of Code-Based KEMs Artikel Geplante Veröffentlichung
In: Preprint, Geplante Veröffentlichung.
Links | Schlagwörter:
@article{nokey,
title = {Multi-Instance Security Degradation of Code-Based KEMs},
author = {Alexander May and Gabriel Sá Diogo},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/517.pdf, Paper},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-06-01},
urldate = {2026-06-01},
journal = {Preprint},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {forthcoming},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Alexander May, Massimo Ostuzzi, Henrik Ressler
Just Guess: Improved (Quantum) Algorithm for the Underdetermined MQ Problem Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Cryptology (EUROCRYPT 26), 2026.
Links | Schlagwörter: Crypto Flagship, Quantum, Rank A*/A
@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Just Guess: Improved (Quantum) Algorithm for the Underdetermined MQ Problem},
author = {Alexander May and Massimo Ostuzzi and Henrik Ressler},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1788.pdf, Paper},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-05-01},
urldate = {2026-05-01},
booktitle = {Advances in Cryptology (EUROCRYPT 26)},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
keywords = {Crypto Flagship, Quantum, Rank A*/A},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Kaveh Bashiri, Timo Glaser, Alexander May, Julian Nowakowski
Super-Quadratic Quantum Speed-Ups and Guessing Many Likely Keys Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Cryptology (EUROCRYPT 26), 2026.
Links | Schlagwörter: Crypto Flagship, Quantum, Rank A*/A
@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Super-Quadratic Quantum Speed-Ups and Guessing Many Likely Keys},
author = {Kaveh Bashiri and Timo Glaser and Alexander May and Julian Nowakowski},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/797.pdf, Paper},
year = {2026},
date = {2026-05-01},
urldate = {2026-05-01},
booktitle = {Advances in Cryptology (EUROCRYPT 26)},
journal = {Preprint},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
keywords = {Crypto Flagship, Quantum, Rank A*/A},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Alexander Karenin and Elena Kirshanova and Julian Nowakowski, Alexander May
Fast Slicer for Batch-CVP: Making Lattice Hybrid Attacks Practical Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Cryptology (ASIACRYPT 25), 2025.
Links | Schlagwörter: Crypto Flagship, Rank A*/A
@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Fast Slicer for Batch-CVP: Making Lattice Hybrid Attacks Practical},
author = {Alexander Karenin and
Elena Kirshanova and
Julian Nowakowski and
Alexander May
},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1910.pdf, Paper},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-12-02},
urldate = {2025-12-02},
booktitle = {Advances in Cryptology (ASIACRYPT 25)},
journal = {Advances in Cryptology (ASIACRYPT 25)},
keywords = {Crypto Flagship, Rank A*/A},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Simon Damm, Asja Fischer, Alexander May, Soundes Marzougui, Leander Schwarz, Henning Seidler, Jean-Pierre Seifert, Jonas Thietke, Vincent Quentin Ulitzsch
Solving Concealed ILWE and its Application for Breaking Masked Dilithium Proceedings Article
In: Advances in Cryptology (ASIACRYPT 25), 2025.
Links | Schlagwörter: Crypto Flagship, Rank A*/A
@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {Solving Concealed ILWE and its Application for Breaking Masked Dilithium},
author = {Simon Damm and Asja Fischer and Alexander May and Soundes Marzougui and Leander Schwarz and Henning Seidler and Jean-Pierre Seifert and Jonas Thietke and Vincent Quentin Ulitzsch},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1629.pdf, Paper},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-12-01},
urldate = {2025-12-01},
booktitle = {Advances in Cryptology (ASIACRYPT 25)},
keywords = {Crypto Flagship, Rank A*/A},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Alexander May, Massimo Ostuzzi
Multiple Group Action Dlogs with(out) Precomputation Proceedings Article
In: Public Key Cryptography (PKC '25), 2025.
Links | Schlagwörter: Crypto Area
@inproceedings{DBLP:journals/iacr/MayO24,
title = {Multiple Group Action Dlogs with(out) Precomputation},
author = {Alexander May and Massimo Ostuzzi},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/564, Paper
https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2025/pkc/pkc2025/5/5_slides.pdf, Slides
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-91826-1_12, DOI},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-05-01},
urldate = {2025-05-01},
booktitle = {Public Key Cryptography (PKC '25)},
journal = {Public Key Cryptography (PKC '25)},
keywords = {Crypto Area},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Simon Damm, Nicolai Kraus, Alexander May, Julian Nowakowski, Jonas Thietke
One Bit to Rule Them All - Imperfect Randomness Harms Lattice Signatures Proceedings Article
In: Public Key Cryptography (PKC '25), 2025.
Links | Schlagwörter: Crypto Area
@inproceedings{nokey,
title = {One Bit to Rule Them All - Imperfect Randomness Harms Lattice Signatures},
author = {Simon Damm and Nicolai Kraus and Alexander May and Julian Nowakowski and Jonas Thietke},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/820.pdf, Paper
https://iacr.org/submit/files/slides/2025/pkc/pkc2025/144/144_slides.pdf, Slides
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-91820-9_10, DOI},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-05-01},
urldate = {2025-05-01},
booktitle = {Public Key Cryptography (PKC '25)},
keywords = {Crypto Area},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Marcus Brinkmann, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Alexander May, Julian Nowakowski, Yuval Yarom
Leaky McEliece: Secret Key Recovery From Highly Erroneous Side-Channel Information Artikel
In: Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES), 2025.
Links | Schlagwörter: Crypto Area, Rank A*/A
@article{DBLP:journals/tches/BrinkmannCMNY25b,
title = {Leaky McEliece: Secret Key Recovery From Highly Erroneous Side-Channel Information},
author = {Marcus Brinkmann and Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup and Alexander May and Julian Nowakowski and Yuval Yarom},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1536.pdf, Paper},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-02-11},
urldate = {2025-02-11},
journal = {Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES)},
keywords = {Crypto Area, Rank A*/A},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
Simon Damm, Asja Fischer, Alexander May, Soundes Marzougui, Leander Schwarz, Henning Seidler, Jean-Pierre Seifert, Jonas Thietke, Vincent Quentin Ulitzsch
Solving Concealed ILWE and Its Application for Breaking Masked Dilithium Proceedings Article
In: International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security (ASIACRYPT), 2025.
Links | Schlagwörter:
@inproceedings{Damm2025SolvingConcealed,
title = {Solving Concealed ILWE and Its Application for Breaking Masked Dilithium},
author = {Simon Damm and Asja Fischer and Alexander May and Soundes Marzougui and Leander Schwarz and Henning Seidler and Jean-Pierre Seifert and Jonas Thietke and Vincent Quentin Ulitzsch},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-5096-8_19},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-01-01},
booktitle = {International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security (ASIACRYPT)},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Lectures (Moodle/Notes)
- Cryptanalysis (Codes, Classic 1, Cl. 2)
- Cryptography (Sym, Asym)
- Probabilistic (Basic, Algos)
- Quantum Algorithms (Script)
Former PhDs
Show names, year of graduation
- Önder Askin, 2024
- Floyd Zweydinger, 2023
- Lars Schlieper, 2022
- Alexander Helm, 2020
- Andre Esser, 2020
- Matthias Minihold, 2019
- Leif Both, 2018
- Robert Kübler, 2018
- Elena Kirshanova, 2016
- Ilya Ozerov, 2016
- Gottfried Herold, 2014
- Alexander Meurer, 2014
- Mathias Herrmann, 2011
- Maike Ritzenhofen, 2010
Calvin & Hobbes
Prof. Dr. Jörg Schwenk
Netz- und Datensicherheit
Professor / Lehrstuhlleiter
Adresse:
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Fakultät für Informatik
Netz- und Datensicherheit
Universitätsstraße 150
--D-44801 Bochum
Raum: ID 2/469
Telefon: +49(0)234 32 26692
Sprechzeiten: Nach Absprache
E-Mail: joerg.schwenk(at)rub.de
Lebenslauf
- seit 2003: Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Netz- und Datensicherheit an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum- 2007 - 2010: Geschäftsführender Direktor des Horst Görtz Instituts für IT Sicherheit
- seit 2007: Stellv. Geschäftsführender Direktor des Rechenzentrums der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Lehrveranstaltungen
- 141251 : Aktuelle Themen im Bereich der Internet-Sicherheit
- 212012 : Netzsicherheit 1
- 211013 : Netzsicherheit 2
- 212420 : Industriepraktikum ITS
- 211038 : Authentische Schlüsselvereinbarung: Formale Modelle und Anwendungen
- 141201 : TLS CASA Vorlesung
- 140015 : Lehrveranstaltungen über das UNIC-Programm
- 212121 : Bachelor-Seminar Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 212121 : Master-Seminar Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 212412 : Master-Projekt Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 212413 : Master-Praktikum zur Hackertechnik
- 212413 : Bachelor-Praktikum zur Hackertechnik
- 212414 : Bachelor-Praktikum TLS Implementierung
- 212414 : Master-Praktikum TLS Implementierung
- 147515 : Kolloquium Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 140001 : Anpassungsfächer
- 212412 : Bachelor-Projekt Netz- und Datensicherheit
- 141245 : Web-Sicherheit
- 148207 : Algebraische Codierung für die sichere Datenübertragung
- 148229 : Digitale Signaturen
- 142248 : Master-Praktikum Security Appliances
- 143245 : Master-Seminar Digitale Signaturen