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Computer Science

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62
Citations
16413
World Ranking
2886
National Ranking
1419

Mathematics

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47
Citations
9077
World Ranking
1270
National Ranking
566

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Daniel J. Bernstein is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on computer science, with significant contributions in areas such as artificial intelligence, information systems, signal processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, and hardware and architecture.

Their work covers a number of specialized topics including cryptographic implementations and security, cryptography and residue arithmetic, cryptography and data security, advanced malware detection techniques, coding theory and cryptography, chaos-based image and signal encryption, and polynomial and algebraic computation.

Bernstein has published multiple papers in several venues, most frequently in the IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. Other publication venues include Research in Number Theory, Journal of Cryptology, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

  • Concrete quantum cryptanalysis of binary elliptic curves, 2020, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • CTIDH: faster constant-time CSIDH, 2021, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • Cryptographic Competitions, 2023, Journal of Cryptology
  • KyberSlash: Exploiting secret-dependent division timings in Kyber implementations, 2025, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • OpenSSLNTRU Demo, 2022, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent coauthors include Tanja Lange, Gustavo Banegas, Tung Chou, Billy Bob Brumley, and Ming-Syan Chen. Collaborative efforts with these researchers have contributed to advancements in the field of cryptographic hardware and embedded systems.

Daniel J. Bernstein was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Post Quantum Cryptography

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Johannes Buchmann;Erik Dahmen

  • Introduction to post-quantum cryptography

    DJ Daniel Bernstein

  • Curve25519: new diffie-hellman speed records

    Daniel J. Bernstein

  • High-speed high-security signatures

    DJ Daniel Bernstein;N Niels Duif;T Tanja Lange;P Peter Schwabe

  • Faster addition and doubling on elliptic curves

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Tanja Lange

  • The Salsa20 Family of Stream Ciphers

    Daniel J. Bernstein

  • Twisted Edwards curves

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Peter Birkner;Marc Joye;Tanja Lange

  • Attacking and defending the McEliece cryptosystem

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Tanja Lange;Christiane Peters

  • The Poly1305-AES message-authentication code

    Daniel J. Bernstein

  • SPHINCS: Practical Stateless Hash-Based Signatures

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Daniel J. Bernstein;Daira Hopwood;Andreas Hülsing;Tanja Lange

  • SipHash : a fast short-input PRF

    Jean Philippe Aumasson;Daniel J. Bernstein

  • The security impact of a new cryptographic library

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Tanja Lange;Peter Schwabe

  • On the security of RC4 in TLS

    Nadhem J. AlFardan;Daniel J. Bernstein;Kenneth G. Paterson;Bertram Poettering

  • The SPHINCS+ Signature Framework

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Andreas Hülsing;Stefan Kölbl;Ruben Niederhagen

  • Smaller decoding exponents: ball-collision decoding

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Tanja Lange;Christiane Peters

  • Grover vs. mceliece

    Daniel J. Bernstein

  • Elligator : elliptic-curve points indistinguishable from uniform random strings

    D.J. Bernstein;M. Hamburg;A. Krasnova;T. Lange

  • NTRU prime : reducing attack surface at low cost

    DJ Daniel Bernstein;C Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup;T Tanja Lange;C Christine van Vredendaal

  • Binary Edwards Curves.

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Tanja Lange;Reza Rezaeian Farashahi

  • High-speed high-security signatures

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Niels Duif;Tanja Lange;Peter Schwabe

  • New AES Software Speed Records

    Daniel J. Bernstein;Peter Schwabe

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanja Lange
Tanja Lange Eindhoven University of Technology
Peter Schwabe
Peter Schwabe Radboud University
Bo-Yin Yang
Bo-Yin Yang Academia Sinica
Michele Mosca
Michele Mosca University of Waterloo
Christof Paar
Christof Paar Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Tim Güneysu
Tim Güneysu Ruhr University Bochum
Mihir Bellare
Mihir Bellare University of California, San Diego
Daniel Genkin
Daniel Genkin Georgia Institute of Technology
Francesco Regazzoni
Francesco Regazzoni Polytechnic University of Milan
Lejla Batina
Lejla Batina Radboud University

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