Ph.D. student (advisor: Dr. Benny Pinkas)
Department of Computer Science
University of Haifa
Mount Carmel Haifa, 31905, Israel
Email: ayman (at) jarrous . net

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Research Interest

My research interests are cryptography, computer security and privacy, in particular secure multi-party computation. 

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Education

• M.Sc. (Cum laude), Computer Science, University of Haifa.
• B.A., Computer Science, Israel Institute of Technology - Technion
  

Master Thesis

Privacy-Preserving Computation of Document Similarity
My advisor was Dr. Benny Pinkas.
The thesis introduces a design and an implementation of a secure protocol enabling two parties to check the similarity of documents without disclosing their contents. The thesis proposes protocols that handle the secure computation of Hamming distance over binary and arbitrary alphabets.
[PDF] [PS]

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Publications

Margarita Osadchy, Benny Pinkas, Ayman Jarrous and Boaz Moskovich
SCiFI - A System for Secure Face Identification (Best paper award)
31st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2010, Oakland, California, USA.
[PDF] [PS] [BibTex] [Abstract] [SCiFI Project]

Ayman Jarrous and Benny Pinkas
Secure Hamming Distance based Computation and its Applications (Best student paper award)
7th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2009, Paris, France.
[PDF] [PS] [BibTex] [Abstract]

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Teaching

• Introduction to Cryptography, The Open University of Israel, Fall 2010
  
• Computer Organization and Design, The Open University of Israel, Spring 2010
• Introduction to Cryptography, The Open University of Israel, Fall 2009