Alnahawi, Nouri

Educational Area
PhD Student - Applied Cyber-Security

Other functions
  • Senatsausschuss FuE (Mitglied stimmberechtigt)
  • Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter

Portrait: Alnahawi, Nouri

Research assistant in the research group Applied Cyber-Security Darmstadt and PHD student in the field of Post-Quantum Cryptography.

Sommersemester 2025

 

Wintersemester 2024/25

  • Bachelor: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Informatik 2 (Modulbeschreibung)
    • Begin: 17.04.2024, 14:15 Uhr,  D15/00.03

 

Sommersemester 2024

  • Bachelor: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten in der Informatik 2 (Module Description)
    • Start: 17.04.2024, 14:15 AM,  D15/00.03
    • Link to Moodle-Course

Winter Semester 2023/24

 

Summer Semester 2023

  • Master: Practicals (Mo2x) Cryptography (Module Description)
    • Start: 17.04.2023, 10.15 AM, D19/5.02

 

Winter Semester 2022/23

 

Summer Semester 2022

 

Winter Semester 2021/2022

 

 

Summer Semester 2021

 

  • Post-Quantum Cryptography
  • Cyber-Security
  • IT-Securiy
  • Networks
  • Blockchain

Publications

  • Alnahawi, Nouri, Melissa Azouaoui,  Joppe W. Bos, Gareth T. Davies, SeoJeong Moon, Christine van Vredendaal,  and Alexander Wiesmaier. "Post-Quantum Cryptography in eMRTDs:  Evaluating PAKE and PKI for Travel Documents." Cryptology ePrint Archive (2025).

  • Alnahawi, Nouri, David Haas, Erik Mauß, and Alexander Wiesmaier. "SoK:  PQC PAKEs-Cryptographic Primitives, Design and Security." Cryptology ePrint Archive (2025).

  • Alnahawi, Nouri, Jacob  Alperin-Sheriff, Daniel Apon, Gareth T. Davies, and Alexander Wiesmaier.  "NICE-PAKE: on the security of KEM-based PAKE constructions without  ideal ciphers." Cryptology ePrint Archive (2024).

  • Alnahawi, N., Hövelmanns, K., Hülsing, A., Ritsch, S. (2025). Towards Post-quantum Secure PAKE - A Tight Security Proof for OCAKE in the BPR Model. In: Kohlweiss, M., Di Pietro, R., Beresford, A. (eds) Cryptology and Network Security. CANS 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14906. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-8016-7_9

  • Nouri Alnahawi, Johannes Müller, Jan Oupický, and Alexander Wiesmaier, "A Comprehensive Survey on Post-Quantum TLS," IACR Communications in Cryptology, vol. 1, no. 2, Jul 08, 2024, doi: 10.62056/ahee0iuc, https://cic.iacr.org//p/1/2/6

  • Nils Von Nethen, Alexander Wiesmaier, Nouri Alnahawi, and Johanna Henrich. PMMP-PQC Migration Management Process. In Proceedings of the 2024 European Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Conference (EICC '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 144–154. https://doi.org/10.1145/3655693.3655719

  • Kern, Dustin, Christoph Krauß, Timm Lauser, Nouri Alnahawi, Alexander Wiesmaier, and Ruben Niederhagen. "Quantumcharge: Post-quantum cryptography for electric vehicle charging." In International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, pp. 85-111. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33491-7_4
  • Alnahawi, N. ; Schmitt, N. ; Wiesmaier, A. ; Graßmeyer, A. Heinemann T.: On the State of Crypto Agility. In: Tagungsband zum 18. Deutschen IT-Sicherheitskongress. Bd. 18 : SecuMedia Verlags-GmbH, 2022. — Backup Publisher: BSI — ISBN 978-3-922746-84-3, S. 103–126. ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/487
  • N. Alnahawi and A. Wiesmaier and T. Graßmeyer and J. Geißler and A. Zeier and P. Bauspieß and A. Heinemann. On the State of Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration. In INFORMATIK'21 — PQKP-Workshop, Volume 308 of GI-Edition: Lecture Notes in Informatics (LNI), 2021.
  • Braun, M., Wiesmaier, A., Alnahawi, N. and Geißler, J., 2021, October. On Message-based Consensus and Network Coding. In 2021 12th International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF) (pp. 1-9). IEEE.

Talks

  • PQC PAKEs: Design, Security and Cryptographic Primitives - 7th Asian Post-Quantum Cryptographic Forum - Suzhou, China 25
  • PQC PAKEs: Design, Security and Cryptographic Primitives - PQShield Online Seminar 25
  • PQC PAKEs: Design, Security and Cryptographic Primitives - Second ACSD PQC Workshop 25
  • NICE-PAKE: On the Security of KEM-Based PAKE Constructions without Ideal Ciphers: First PAKE Workshop Uni Luxembourg 25
  • NICE-PAKE: On the Security of KEM-Based PAKE Constructions without Ideal Ciphers - BSI Brainpool 24 Munich
  • Towards Crypto-Agility and PQC Migration - OpenRheinMain 2023 Darmstadt
  • Towards Crypto-Agility Assessment and Cryptographic Migration - CAMM Workshop 2023 Darmstadt
  • Anticipating Cryptographic Risks in the Dawning Age of Quantum Computing - Cyber-Security Strategy Day 2023 Zurich
  • Towards a Maturity Model for Crypto-Agility Assessment and Cryptographic Migration - PQC-Update 2023 Fraunhofer AISEC Garching
  • On the State of Crypto-Agility - 18. Deutsches IT-Sicherheitskongress 2022 (Online)
  • PQC Integration for eID and eMRTD Security Protocols - Doctoral Forum GI Sicherheit 2002 Karlsruhe KIT
  • On the State of Post-Quantum Cryptography Integration - Post-Quantum-Cryptography in Practice (PQKP) GI Informatik 2021 (Online)

Academic Service

External Reviewer:

  • AsiaCrypt25
  • Crypto25
  • ESORICS23
  • CSAE23

Reviewer:

  • Springer Nature SNAPP: Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
  • Springer Nature SNAPP: Cryptography and Communications
  • Springer Nature SNAPP: Designs, Codes and Cryptography
  • PACIS25

PQC-PACE:

In the PQC-PACE project we investigate as part of the ATHENE research area Cryptography the migration of electronic identity documents (eCards) to quantum-resilient schemes, so-called post-quantum cryptography (PQC).

Contact: Prof. Dr. Alexander Wiesmaier

As part of a bigger research effort, we concentrate on the PACE protocol which is at the heart of many eCard security mechanisms. This includes the analysis of the current state-of-the-art in both PQC and eCards, the underlying infrastructures, challenges, and possible solutions starting from the hardware and infrastructures, over scheme suitability and protocol design, and all the way up to a full-scale approach for PQC migration and crypto-agility. The proposed research helps paving the way towards securing eCards against the threat of quantum computers, enable crypto-agility, and provide building blocks for similar systems.

Open Bachelor and Master theses as well as R&D studies can be found on the ACSD-Group website.

 

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2012 - 2018

Bachelor and Master Studies in computer science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences

2020 - now

Research Assistant / PHD Student at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences / Department of Computer Science

Contact

Nouri Alnahawi

Communication Schöfferstraße 10
64295 Darmstadt
Office: D19, 2.15

+49.6151.533-60040
+49.176.64718339
nouri.alnahawi@h-da.de

IT-SIcherheit Bachelor 1A