Erik Pohle Postdoctoral Researcher in Cryptography

I’m interested in cryptography in distributed systems and multi-party computation.

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the cryptography group at Aarhus University hosted by Peter Scholl since January 2026. Before, I was a postdoctoral researcher at COSIC, KU Leuven where I defended my PhD in September 2025 under the supervision of Bart Preneel and Aysajan Abidin. For my thesis, I worked on the (oblivious) evaluation of symmetric-key primitives in secure multi-party computation (MPC) in the scope of the MOZAIK project. I implemented and co-designed (MPC-friendly) symmetric-key primitives and modes of operations for this setting, and designed custom MPC protocols that are more efficient to evaluate selected primitives.

I hold a BSc and MSc Informatics from Technical University of Munich (TUM) and a MSc Informatics from École Polytechnique, Paris.

News

  • September 2026: Our paper Improved Multi-Party Distributed Point Functions from Oblivious Tensor Evaluation has been accepted in ASIACRYPT 2026! Read the eprint here.
  • August 2026: I gave a seminar talk in the Monash University Cybersecurity seminar in Melbourne, Australia.
  • May 2026: I gave an invited seminar talk in the cryptography group at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway.
  • March 2026: I gave a (virtual) talk in the seminar at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  • February 2026: I joined the program committee for ACM CCS 2026 and for TPMPC 2026.
  • January 2026: I gave a talk at the NIST workshop on Multi-Party Threshold Schemes MPTS 2026 about our planned submission Symphony
  • January 2026: I joined the Aarhus Crypto group as postdoc!
  • January 2026: Our paper MOZAIK: A Privacy-Preserving Analytics Platform for IoT Data Using MPC and FHE has been accepted to appear in Journal of Network and Systems Management
  • September 2025: I graduated! :partying_face:

Selected Publications

  • Improved Multi-Party Distributed Point Functions from Oblivious Tensor Evaluation
    ASIACRYTP 2026
  • Row Reduction Techniques for n-Party Garbling
    CRYPTO 2025
  • MAESTRO: Multi-Party AES using Lookup Tables
    Usenix Security 2025
  • Fast Evaluation of S-boxes with Garbled Circuits
    IEEE TIFS 2024
  • Let’s Go Eevee! A Friendly and Suitable Family of AEAD Modes for IoT-to-Cloud Secure Computation
    ACM CCS 2023

You can find a list of all publications here.