Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya

Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya is an Assistant Professor at the Computing Sciences Department within the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences at Tampere University. His research unit is NISEC (Networked Information Systems and Security). He specializes in information security, cryptography, and side-channel attacks. His work focuses on hardware-software vulnerabilities in cryptographic implementations, with an emphasis on embedded systems and real-world cryptographic libraries like Mozilla's NSS.

Key research areas include side-channel analysis (SPA, DPA, timing attacks), microarchitecture exploitation (cache-timing, port contention), and algorithmic vulnerabilities in cryptographic primitives such as RSA, ECDSA, and AES. His publications demonstrate expertise in both theoretical cryptanalysis and practical exploitation techniques.

His articles reveal a trend toward analyzing implementation-level flaws in widely used cryptographic algorithms and libraries, with a focus on single-trace attacks, memory tampering, and CPU resource contention vulnerabilities. He has contributed to understanding vulnerabilities in modular inversion, projective coordinates usage, and binary GCD algorithms.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed in the provided information. Research is centered in the NISEC research unit, though specific labs or teams are not detailed. His work involves collaborations on hardware-software co-design security and embedded system protection mechanisms.