Dr Theodosis Mourouzis

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Theodosis Mourouzis
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Limassol Campus 2: 3-5 Chaidariou Street, 3020 Limassol, Cyprus

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Dr Theodosis Mourouzis

Assistant Professor
Director MSc BIDA
Department of Information Technologies
EXPERTISE

My research expertise is in information security and in particular cryptography and Blockchain. I research cryptanalytics techniques in symmetric and symmetric crypto design as well as the more efficient design of Blockchain Ecosystems.

SHORT BIO

I am an Assistant Professor of Information Management at UoL and the Director of the MSc in Business Intelligence and Data Analytics. I hold a PhD in Information Security and Cryptography from the University College London (UCL), an MSc in Advanced Studies in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge and BA/MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge.

Selected Publications
  • 2021

Sofia-Maria DimaAlexandros HasikosStylianos Kampakis, Theodosis Mourouzis, Andreas Papageorgiou:
Hygiea: A secure, smart, privacy-preserving and interoperable Blockchain solution for the Covid-19 pandemic. CoRR abs/2107.09926 (2021)

Theodosis Mourouzis, Andreas Avgousti:
Intrusion Detection with Machine Learning Using Open-Sourced Datasets. CoRR abs/2107.12621 (2021)

  • 2019

Theodosis Mourouzis, Jayant Tandon:
Introduction to Decentralization and Smart Contracts. CoRR abs/1903.04806 (2019)

  • 2018

Theodosis Mourouzis, Kyriacos E. PavlouStylianos Kampakis:
The Evolution of User-Selected Passwords: A Quantitative Analysis of Publicly Available Datasets. CoRR abs/1804.03946 (2018)

  • 2017

Theodosis Mourouzis, Marcin WójcikNikos Komninos:
On The Security Evaluation of Partial Password Implementations. CoRR abs/1701.00104 (2017)

Theodosis Mourouzis, Chrysostomos Filipou:
The Blockchain Revolution: Insights from Top-Management. CoRR abs/1712.04649 (2017)

  • 2015

Theodosis Mourouzis:
Optimizations in algebraic and differential cryptanalysis. University College London, UK, 2015

Nicolas T. Courtois, Theodosis Mourouzis, Michal MisztalJean-Jacques QuisquaterGuangyan Song:
Can GOST Be Made Secure Against Differential Cryptanalysis? Cryptologia 39(2): 145-156 (2015)

Theodosis Mourouzis, Guangyan SongNicolas T. CourtoisMichalis Christofi:
Advanced Differential Cryptanalysis of Reduced-Round SIMON64/128 Using Large-Round Statistical Distinguishers. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2015: 481 (2015)

  • 2014

Nicolas T. Courtois, Theodosis Mourouzis, Guangyan SongPouyan SepehrdadPetr Susil:
Combined Algebraic and Truncated Differential Cryptanalysis on Reduced-round Simon. SECRYPT 2014: 399-404

  • 2013

Nicolas T. Courtois, Theodosis Mourouzis, Michal Misztal:
Enhanced Truncated Differential Cryptanalysis of GOST. SECRYPT 2013: 411-418

  • 2012

Nicolas T. Courtois, Theodosis Mourouzis, Pho V. Le:
Extension of de Weger’s Attack on RSA with Large Public Keys. SECRYPT 2012: 145-153

  • 2011

Nicolas T. Courtois, Theodosis Mourouzis:
Black-box Collision Attacks on the Compression Function of the GOST Hash Function. SECRYPT 2011: 325-332

Nicolas T. CourtoisDaniel Hulme, Theodosis Mourouzis:
Solving Circuit Optimisation Problems in Cryptography and Cryptanalysis. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2011: 475 (2011)

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