Main Research Area: Networks, Interconnects, Cryptographic Hardware

Project Name: Sedna - Next Generation Switch

Project Mission: To explore architectures of large-scale data center switches

When did you come to Sun: 1998

Prior to Sun:

• Assistant Professor of Computer Science at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology)
 
• Principal Engineer, Systems Research Center, Digital Equipment Corporation

• Dr. sc. techn., ETH, Zurich
 
• Dipl. El. Ing., ETH, Zurich

• Hans Eberle, Nils Gura, Sheueling Chang Shantz, Vipul Gupta, Leonard Rarick, Shreyas Sundaram: A Public-key Cryptographic Processor for RSA and ECC. ASAP 2004, 15th IEEE International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors, Galveston, Texas, September 27-29, 2004.
• Hans Eberle, Sheueling Chang Shantz, Vipul Gupta, Nils Gura: Accelerating Next-Generation Public-key Cryptography on General-purpose CPUs. Hot Chips 16, IEEE Symposium on High Performance Chips, Stanford, August 22-24, 2004. Selected as one of the Best Papers.
  
• Nils Gura, Hans Eberle, Arun Patel: Comparing ECC and RSA on Small Devices. CHES 2004, Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Cambridge (Boston), USA, August 11-13, 2004.
• Hans Eberle, Nils Gura, Arvinderpal Wander: Testing Systems Wirelessly. VTS 2004, 22nd IEEE VLSI Test Symposium, Napa Valley, California, April 25-29, 2004.
• Hans Eberle, Nils Gura, Sheueling Chang-Shantz: Cryptographic Processor for Arbitrary Elliptic Curves over GF(2^m). ASAP 2003, 14th IEEE Int. Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors. The Hague, The Netherlands, June 24-26, 2003, pp. 444-454. Received Best Paper Award. Extended version available as Sun Labs Technical Report TR-2003-123.
• Nils Gura, Hans Eberle: Generic Implementations of Elliptic Curve Cryptography using Partial Reduction. CCS 2002, 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Washington, DC, November 17-21, 2002, pp. 108-116.
• Hans Eberle, Nils Gura: Separated High-bandwidth and Low-latency Communication in the Cluster Interconnect Clint. SC2002, Baltimore, Maryland, November 2002. Extended version available as Sun Labs Technical Report TR-2002-115.
• Nils Gura, Sheueling Chang Shantz, Hans Eberle, Daniel Finchelstein, Sumit Gupta, Vipul Gupta, Douglas Stebila: An End-to-End Systems Approach to Elliptic Curve Cryptography. CHES 2002, Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, Redwood City, California, August 13 - 15, 2002
• Hans Eberle: Radioport: A Radio Network for Monitoring and Diagnosing Computer Systems. Hot Interconnects 2002, 10th IEEE Symposium on  High Performance Interconnects, Stanford, California, August 2002. Received Most Interesting New Topic Award. Extended version available as Sun Labs Technical Report TR-2002-117.
• Hans Eberle, Erwin Oertli, Switcherland: A QoS Communication Infrastructure for Workstation Clusters. ISCA 1998, The 25th Annual International Symposium on Computer Architecture Barcelona, June 29 - July 1, 1998, pp. 98-108.
• Hans Eberle: A High-speed DES Implementation for Network Applications. CRYPTO 1992, 12th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, August 16-20, 1992. Also in E. Brickell, Editor, Advances in Cryptology, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 740, Springer-Verlag, 1993. Extended version available as DEC SRC Research Report 90.