Vahid Jahandideh

I’m a postdoctoral researcher in the Digital Security group at Radboud University, working with Lejla Batina on implementation security for post-quantum cryptography.

My PhD research focused on practical aspects of leakage-resilient designs and side-channel attacks, under the supervision of Lejla Batina and Bart Mennink. I’m also part of CESCALAB, which specializes in side-channel analysis and cryptographic implementations.

Before my PhD, I was a researcher at Sharif University in Iran.

Thesis and résumé

My PhD defense will take place in November 2026. Read my thesis (PDF).

Download my résumé (PDF).

Publications

• Vahid Jahandideh, Too Small to Hide: Single-Trace Key Recovery from ML-KEM Key Generation. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2026/2137. Accepted at ACTIVE 2026. DOI.
• Vahid Jahandideh, Bart Mennink, Lejla Batina, Leakage-Diagrams, Importance Sampling, and Composition in the Random Probing Model. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2026/444. Accepted for CHES 2027.
• Vahid Jahandideh, Bart Mennink, Lejla Batina, A Decomposition Approach for Evaluating Security of Masking, Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT. (2025)
• Vahid Jahandideh, Bart Mennink, Lejla Batina, Probing Secure Composability Without Fresh Randomness: Theory and Application to Ascon, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. (2025)
• Vahid Jahandideh, Jan Schoone, Lejla Batina, Clustering Approach for Higher-Order Deterministic Masking. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2025/273. Preprint. (2025)
• Vahid Jahandideh, Bart Mennink, Lejla Batina, An Algebraic Approach for Evaluating Random Probing Security With Application to AES, IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems. (2024)
• Vahid Jahandideh, Léo Weissbart, Bart Mennink, Lejla Batina, A New Leakage Exploitation Framework and Its Application to Authenticated Encryption. NIST Lightweight Cryptography Workshop. (2023)
• Vahid Jahandideh, Concrete Evaluation of the Random Probing Security. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. (2021)
• Vahid Jahandideh, Verification of the security in Boolean masked circuits. IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. (2021)