Current position

Lecturer cum Post-Doctoral-Fellow
R C Bose Centre for Cryptology and Security
Indian Statistical Institute

Reach me at

sg.[firstname]@gmail.com
Phone

+91 (33) 2575 3251 (Office)
Office

3rd Floor, R A Fisher Building

I am teaching

Introduction to Programming
Degree

M.Tech. (CS) -- First Year First Semester
Website

Course Website

About Me about

I am a Researcher, positioned precariously at the confluence of Computer Science, Mathematics and Engineering, and I study the art and science of Cryptology and Information Security.

Academic Positions

Since 2014 : Lecturer-cum-PDF, R C Bose Centre, Indian Statistical Institute
2011-2014 : Researcher, Centre of Excellence in Cryptology, Indian Statistical Institute
2010-2011 : Research-Fellow, Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute
2009-2010 : Researcher, Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute
2008–2009 : Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
Summer 2008 : Sessional Instructor, Dept. of Pure Mathematics, Univ. of Waterloo
2006-2008 : Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Pure Mathematics, Univ. of Waterloo

Academic Background

2014 : PhD in Computer Science (Cryptology) -- Indian Statistical Institute
2008 : M.Math. in Pure Mathematics -- University of Waterloo
2006 : B.E.Tel.E. in Electronics and Telecommunication Engg. -- Jadavpur University

I will be glad to share a copy of my CV, with further professional details, if you are interested.

Research research

My research inclination follows two apparently diverse tracks in Cryptology -- mathematical analysis of cryptographic primitives towards discovering their vulnerabilities, and efficient engineering of cryptographic designs for high performance in practice.

In Cryptanalysis, my interests range across theoretical problems like statistical analysis of stream ciphers to lattice-based attacks on RSA and factorization. I also take active interest in practical applications of Cryptology in visual cryptographic schemes, key pre-distribution and electronic cash. The central theme of my research has always targeted at bridging the gap between theory and practice in Cryptology.

In addition to my primary interests in Cryptology, I am also inclined towards research topics in Number Theory that have close ties with cryptographic applications. Distribution of primes, primality testing algorithms, the factorization problem, lattice based analysis of cryptographic constructions, and topics in elliptic curve cryptography pique my interest. Time and again, I also like to explore elegant theoretical and computational problems in elementary Number Theory.

Publications publications

The following is a select list of my publications. Please feel free to check my DBLP page as well.
I will be glad to share a copy of my CV, with a complete list of publications, if you are interested.

Refereed Journal

(Non-)Random Sequences from (Non-)Random Permutations -- Analysis of RC4 stream cipher
J. of Cryptology (2014) -- S. Sen Gupta, S. Maitra, G. Paul and S. Sarkar
High Performance Hardware Implementation for RC4 Stream Cipher
IEEE-TC (2013) -- S. Sen Gupta, A. Chattopadhyay, K. Sinha, S. Maitra and B. P. Sinha
Designing Integrated Accelerator for Stream Ciphers with Structural Similarities
CCDS (2013) -- S. Sen Gupta, A. Chattopadhyay and A. Khalid
Counting Heron triangles with constraints
INTEGERS (2013) -- P. Stanica, S. Sarkar, S. Sen Gupta, S. Maitra and N. Kar

Refereed Conference

Dependence in IV-related bytes of RC4 key enhances vulnerabilities in WPA
FSE 2014 -- S. Sen Gupta, S. Maitra, W. Meier, G. Paul and S. Sarkar
Attack on Broadcast RC4 Revisited
FSE 2011 -- S. Maitra, G. Paul and S. Sen Gupta
Proof of Empirical RC4 Biases and New Key Correlations
SAC 2011 -- S. Sen Gupta, S. Maitra, G. Paul and S. Sarkar
HiPAcc-LTE: An Integrated High Performance Accelerator for 3GPP LTE Stream Ciphers
INDOCRYPT 2011 -- S. Sen Gupta, A. Chattopadhyay and A. Khalid
One Byte per Clock: A Novel RC4 Hardware
INDOCRYPT 2010 -- S. Sen Gupta, K. Sinha, S. Maitra and B. P. Sinha
Partial Key Exposure Attack on RSA - Improvements for Limited Lattice Dimensions
INDOCRYPT 2010 -- S. Sarkar, S. Sen Gupta and S. Maitra
Factoring RSA Modulus using Prime Reconstruction from Random Known Bits
AFRICACRYPT 2010 -- S. Maitra, S. Sarkar and S. Sen Gupta

Preprints

Proving TLS-attack related open biases of RC4
IACR ePrint (2013) -- S. Sarkar, S. Sen Gupta, G. Paul and S. Maitra

Thesis

Analysis and Implementation of RC4 Stream Cipher
PhD Thesis (2013) -- Advisor: Prof. Subhamoy Maitra, ISI Kolkata
Artin's Conjecture - Unconditional Approach and Elliptic Analogue
MMath Thesis (2008) -- Advisor: Dr. Yu-Ru Liu and Dr. Wentang Kuo, Univ. of Waterloo

Synergy synergy

Member of Program Committee - Indocrypt 2014
Reviewer/Sub-reviewer for Journal of Cryptology, IEEE Trans. on Computers, CCDS, Crypto, Eurocrypt, Asiacrypt, FSE, SAC, Indocrypt, Africacrypt, ProvSec, etc.
Member of Organizing Committee for Indocrypt 2012 and Indocrypt 2013.
Organized several workshops and training programs in Cryptology and allied disciplines, hosted by Centre of Excellence in Cryptology, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.
Organized several Mathematics workshops and training programs for school students, primarily targeted towards Mathematics Olympiad.
Co-organizer of various workshops and training programs in Free and Open Source Software.

Personal personal

I have had a bounty of hobbies and leisurely activities over the course of time -- sketching, magic, shayaari, recitation, karate, cooking, and many more. At present, I am interested in photography, web development, and free and open-source software movement.

I am also an avid reader, and I love listening to technical and non-technical lectures from various sources (TED talks are my personal favorites).

Member of

IACR [2012-13, 2014-15]
CRSI [Life Member]
AMS [2006-07, 2008-09]