Omar Choudary

I am a PhD student within the Security Group at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. My supervisor is Dr. Markus Kuhn and my research interests include authentication, payment protocols security (EMV in particular), applied cryptography, hardware security (side-channel analysis in particular) and digital communications.

My research is sponsored by Google and I am a recipient of the Google European Fellowship in Mobile Security. I've been a Google intern in the summer of 2011. In 2009-2010 I have done the MPhil in Advanced Computer Science within the Computer Laboratory, and previous to that I've been working as a research assistant at IRIT in Toulouse (France) with Romulus Grigoras and Vincent Charvillat within the Vortex team.

I am a member of Darwin College, where I was the captain of the football team ( I still join them from time to time). I am also part of the Orthodox society in Cambridge.

I was born in Madrid, Spain and I did my undergraduate at the University "Politehnica" of Bucharest, Romania. During that time I won the Windows Embedded Student Challenge 2006 (now part of Imagine Cup) with my colleagues from Politehnica.

Check this page for a list of my publications and my projects page to see some of my work.

You can follow me on twitter. You can also find some media bits about my work here.

Students having supervisions with me please go to this page.

I also keep this page with a few tutorials about things I came across.

I presented our work on FileVault 2 at the CHES 2012 rump session. My slides are here, but I recommend reading the paper.

Our FileVault 2 paper is finally out. Check also the project source code to read volumes encrypted with FileVault 2.

• ISSA Ireland 2011 - Chip and Pin internals. PDF (later given also at Athcon, IBM Warwick and Munster Institute for Computer Science).
• SPW2011 - Make noise and whisper: a solution to relay attacks. PDF.
• Darwin launch seminar talk 2011.
• FC11 presentation (P2P EMV).