PhD

• Title: Software Implementations of Polynomial Multiplications for Lattice-Based Cryptosystems.

• Where:
  • Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), Bochum, Germany (employed as a PhD student).
  • Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands (external PhD student).
• When:
  • 2026-04-28 (defense).
  • 2025-07-06 (submission).
• Supervisors:
  • Supervisor: Peter Schwabe (樂岩) at MPI-SP.
  • Co-supervisor: Bo-Yin Yang (楊柏因) at Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Assets:
  • Dissertation

Included Publications

• 2025:
  • Proving Faster Implementations Faster: Combining Deductive and Circuit-Based Reasoning in EasyCrypt
    • José Bacelar Almeida, Manuel Barbosa, Gilles Barthe, Gustavo Xavier Delerue Marinho Alves, Luís Esquível, Vincent Hwang, Tiago Oliveira, Hugo Pacheco, Peter Schwabe, Pierre-Yves Strub
    • IEEE Security and Privacy 2025, Cycle 2
    • paper ePrint
  • Multiplying Polynomials without Powerful Multiplication Instructions (Long Paper)
    • Vincent Hwang, YoungBeom Kim, and Seog Chung Seo
    • IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES 2025), Issue 1
    • paper slides code ePrint
• 2024:
  • Formal Verification of Emulated Floating-Point Arithmetic in Falcon
    • Vincent Hwang
    • International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2024)
    • paper slides code ePrint
  • A Survey of Polynomial Multiplications for Lattice-Based Cryptosystems
    • Vincent Hwang
    • Communications in Cryptology (CiC 2024), Issue 2
    • paper code ePrint
  • Pushing the Limit of Vectorized Polynomial Multiplication for NTRU Prime
    • Vincent Hwang
    • Australasian Conference for Security and Privacy (ACISP 2024)
    • paper slides code ePrint
  • Algorithmic Views of Vectorized Polynomial Multipliers – NTRU Prime
    • Vincent Hwang, Chi-Ting Liu, and Bo-Yin Yang
    • Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2024)
    • paper slides code ePrint
• 2023:
  • Algorithmic Views of Vectorized Polynomial Multipliers – NTRU
    • Han-Ting Chen, Yi-Hua Chung, Vincent Hwang, and Bo-Yin Yang
    • International Conference on Cryptology in India (INDOCRYPT 2023)
    • paper slides code ePrint
• 2022:
  • Verified NTT Multiplications for NISTPQC KEM Lattice Finalists: Kyber, SABER, and NTRU
    • Vincent Hwang, Jiaxiang Liu, Gregor Seiler, Xiaomu Shi, Ming-Hsien Tsai, Bow-Yaw Wang, and Bo-Yin Yang
    • IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES 2022), Issue 4
    • paper talk by Bo-Yin Yang slides code
  • Efficient Multiplication of Somewhat Small Integers using Number-Theoretic Transforms (Best Paper Award)
    • Hanno Becker, Vincent Hwang, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Lorenz Panny, and Bo-Yin Yang
    • International Workshop on Security (IWSEC 2022)
    • paper slides code ePrint
  • Faster Kyber and Dilithium on the Cortex-M4
    • Amin Abdulrahman, Vincent Hwang, Matthias J. Kannwischer, and Amber Sprenkels
    • Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2022)
    • paper code ePrint
• 2021:
  • NTT Multiplication for NTT-unfriendly Rings
    • Chi-Ming Marvin Chung, Vincent Hwang, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Gregor Seiler, Cheng-Jhih Shih, and Bo-Yin Yang
    • IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES 2021), Issue 2
    • paper talk slides code ePrint
  • Polynomial Multiplication in NTRU Prime
    • Erdem Alkim, Dean Yun-Li Cheng, Chi-Ming Marvin Chung, Hülya Evkan, Leo Wei-Lun Huang, Vincent Hwang, Ching-Lin Trista Li, Ruben Niederhagen, Cheng-Jhih Shih, Julian Wälde, and Bo-Yin Yang
    • IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES 2021), Issue 1
    • paper talk slides code ePrint