Contact Information
Email: pmol (at) cs (dot) ucsd (dot) edu
Office: EBU3B, Room 4240

Mailing Address
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
EBU3B, Room 4240
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0404
La Jolla, CA 92093-0404

I am a second year Ph.D. student in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at University of California, San Diego. I am a member of the Security and Cryptography Group currently working with professor Daniele Micciancio.

Previously, I received a B.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens majoring in Computer Science. There, I was a member of Computation and Reasoning Laboratory (CoReLab).

This fall, I am TAing CSE200 (Computability and Complexity).

Interests
My main research interests include Cryptography and Computer Security. In partcular, I am interested in both the construction of cryptographic primitives and in Cryptanalysis as well as in the analysis and development of cryptographic protocols for practical applications.
I am also interested in Algorithms Design and Analysis, Number Theory and Complexity Theory.

Academic

• Petros Mol and Moti Yung,"Recovering NTRU Secret Key From Inversion Oracles", In Public Key Cryptography (PKC) 2008.
  Paper: pdf, ps       Talk: pdf
• Petros Mol, Lattices and Their Applications to RSA Cryptosystem, Diploma thesis, National Technical University of Athens

• Lattices and Cryptography: An Overview of Recent Results with Emphasis on RSA and NTRU Cryptosystems, Talk at the NYU Crypto Seminar (pdf)
• "Lattices and Their Application to RSA Cryptosystem", thesis presentation (pdf)
• "Computing the RSA Secret Key is Deterministic Polynomial Time Equivalent to Factoring" , a result by Alexander May from Crypto 2004 that I presented during the weekly NTUA Crypto Seminars (pdf)
• "Meshes of Trees and Applications in Integer Arithmetic (PART I)" (ppt)

This is a short list of projects and assignments I completed during my undergradute studies. Most of them are group assignments. Unfortunately, some of them are available only in greek. I hope to find the time to translate all of them in english soon.

1. Security Evaluation of Instant Messengers. Using sniffing and Man in the Middle attacks, we investigate security issues (authentication, message exchange etc) of popular IM protocol/clients (MSN, Yahoo!, Gtalk etc).
   Team mates: Panagiotis Voulgaris, Andrea Vattani
2. A client-server chat program in Unix Operating System using sockets (source code in C:chat.txt)
3. A scientific calculator implemented in Java (html, source code)
4. Simulation of the Round Robin protocol in Unix Operating System. In this implementation, the user uses shell commands for process scheduling. (source code in C: shell.zip )
5. Modelling of the navigation of a robot inside a three-floor house. The parts of the house are represented as the elements of a 2-dimensional array. For the manipulation of the robot, there are commands for elemantary moves , search for the shortest path, movement of the robot from one room to another etc. (source code in Prolog: robot.pl, report in greek: RobotReport.doc)
6. Online Algorithms: Introduction to Paging and Related Algorithms (report: paging.doc in greek, presentation: PagingPresentation.ppt in greek)
7. GOOGLE Maps API demonstration through a web-based application. Offers functionalities like login, navigation on maps obtained online by GOOGLE, insertion of points of interest on the map, layers choice etc. (documentaion in greek :Documentation.zip, Installation guide and source code in english: Code.zip)

I was born and grown up in Athens.
In my free time, I like swimming, playing football (soccer) and foosball.
When I want to relax, I prefer playing backgammon games and watching Champions League matches on TV with friends.
I like travelling (who doesn't?). China, Hong Kong, New York and Malta are some of the places that I have visited so far.

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