Biography
Friedrich did his PhD at Gregor Leander’s Workgroup of Symmetric Cryptography at the Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security, Ruhr University Bochum. His research interests include the design and analysis of cryptographic schemes, in particular symmetric primitives such as block ciphers. Together with Gregor, Friedrich founded cryptosolutions, providing excellent cryptographic consulting services.
When he needs a change from the mathematics, he devotes his time to photography, or to tinker with Linux, develop hardware in VHDL or glorify functional programming. Friedrich occasionally contributes to the SageMath computer algebra system and is a founding member of the FluxFingers e.V. CTF team.
Interests
- Symmetric Cryptanalysis
- Symmetric Cryptography
- Hardware Development
- Functional Programming
- Photography
Education
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PhD in Symmetric Cryptography, 2019
Ruhr University Bochum
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MSc in IT-Security, 2016
Ruhr University Bochum
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BSc in IT-Security, 2013
Ruhr University Bochum
