Marcel Nageler
Dipl.-Ing. BScCryptology & Privacy, PhD Candidate
Marcel Nageler is a PhD candidate under supervision of Maria Eichlseder.
He studied Information and Computer Engineering at Graz University of Technology and graduated in 2022. His research mainly focuses on cryptanalysis of symmetric primitives.
Teaching
I teach cryptography as part of several undergraduate and graduate courses (see TUGRAZonline):- Information Security (exercises: winter term 2024/25, 2023/24, 2022/23)
- Cryptanalysis (lecture/seminar and practicals: summer term 2025, 2024, 2023)
- Secure Software Development (2 lectures in winter term 2023/24, 2022/23)
Publications
Preimage-type Attacks for Reduced Ascon-Hash: Application to Ed25519
Nageler M., Schmid L., Eichlseder M.
Selected Areas in Cryptography – SAC 2025, Springer
AutoDiVer: Automatically Verifying Differential Characteristics and Learning Key Conditions
Nageler M., Ghosh S., Jüttler M., Eichlseder M.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Vol. 2025(1), 471-514
The QARMAv2 Family of Tweakable Block Ciphers
Avanzi R., Banik S., Dunkelman O., Eichlseder M., Ghosh S., Nageler M., Regazzoni F.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Vol. 2023(3), 25-73
Finding Collisions for Round-Reduced Romulus-H
Nageler M., Pallua F., Eichlseder M.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Vol. 2023(1), 67-88
Throwing Boomerangs into Feistel Structures
Hadipour H., Nageler M., Eichlseder M.
IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, Vol. 2022(3), 271-302