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Dr Ciara Rafferty is a Senior Lecturer at the Centre for Secure information Technologies, where she leads research into advanced cryptography and data security. She was a post-doctoral Research Fellow in the H2020 SAFEcrypto project on quantum-safe cryptography. She is Assistant Director, Co-I and QUB lead on the UK Integrated Quantum Networks (IQN) Hub. She is Co-I of She was Co-I and QUB lead on Phase 2 of the UK Quantum Communications Hub (2019-2024) and Co-I on the Innovate UK AQuASeC project led by Toshiba Europe Limited (Nov 2018- Sept 2020) and the Rolls Royce funded project SEQURED (Nov 21-Nov 22). She is a senior member of IEEE and an EPSRC SPRITE+ Expert Fellow.
Her research interests include homomorphic encryption, post-quantum cryptography, privacy-preserving technologies and hardware acceleration and optimisation of cryptosystems.
Teaching
Currently co-teaching the EEECS stage 2 UG module CSC2056 - Systems Security and Cryptography (20CATS)
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Projects
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R1081ECI: Phase 2 Quantum Technologies Hub proposal
Rafferty, C. (PI), Khalid, A. (CoI) & O'Neill, M. (CoI)
10/07/2019 → …
Project: Research
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R3924ECI: CSIT Phase 2
O'Neill, M. (PI), Martinez-del-Rincon, J. (CoI), McCanny, J. V. (CoI), McLaughlin, K. (CoI), Miller, P. (CoI), O'Kane, P. (CoI), O'Sullivan, E. (CoI), Rafferty, C. (CoI), Scott-Hayward, S. (CoI), Sezer, S. (CoI) & Zhou, H. (CoI)
03/05/2017 → …
Project: Research
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An enhanced two-step CPA Side-channel analysis attack on ML-KEM
Kennaway, M., Hoang, A.-T., Khalid, A., Rafferty, C. & O'Neill, M., 13 Jun 2025, Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography. De Capitani Di Vimercati , S. & Samarati, P. (eds.). SciTePress, p. 263 - 274 12 p. (Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Security and Cryptography).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Evaluating area-time-power trade-offs in NTT accelerators for post-quantum cryptography
Imran, M., Khalid, A., Rafferty, C., Rashid, M. & O'Neill, M., 16 Jul 2025, (Accepted) 2025 IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC): Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 6 p. (IEEE International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC): Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Improving student engagement through gamification in a systems security and cryptography course
Browning, J., Rafferty, C. & Anderson, N., 01 Jun 2025, (Accepted) 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE): Proceedings. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 7 p. (IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE): Proceedings).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for Regulated Data Access. Deliverable D2.2. of the Shaping the Metaverse (Phase II) project
Obafemi, F., Rafferty, C., McWilliams, G., McEvoy, B. & Martinez-del-Rincon, J., 01 Sept 2025, (Accepted) 53 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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RejSCore: rejection sampling core for multivariate-based public key cryptography
Imran, M., Khan, S., Ul Abideen, Z., Rafferty, C., Khalid, A., Rashid, M. & O'Neill, M., 16 Sept 2025, (Accepted) Asian Hardware Oriented Security and Trust Symposium (AsianHOST 2025). IEEE Xplore, 6 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
Activities
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) for Metaverse Regulated Data Access
Rafferty, C. (Advisor)
20 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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PhD External Examiner
Rafferty, C. (Examiner)
12 Jun 2025Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
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Danske Bank x NI Cyber Resilient Women Accelerating Action. Panel discussion.
Rafferty, C. (Advisor)
07 Mar 2025Activity: Talk or presentation types › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Distributed Ledger Technology Policy and QUB’s Blockchain initiative
Sharma, V. (Chair), Sandjaja, F. R. (Organiser), Abdullah, A. (Organiser), Abdul Majeed, A. (Organiser), Megarry, M. (Organiser), Wickremasinghe, G. (Organiser), Davis, M. (Organiser), Frost, S. (Organiser), Forde, T. (Organiser), Kerr, N. (Organiser), Fleming, B. (Organiser), Martinez-del-Rincon, J. (Member of programme committee), McWilliams, G. (Member of programme committee) & Rafferty, C. (Member of programme committee)
14 Feb 2025Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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External examiner for PhD student
Rafferty, C. (Examiner)
07 Nov 2024Activity: Examination types › PhD external examination
Press/Media
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An interview with a post-quantum cryptographer
19/04/2021
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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EEECS Podcast - The Secret to Cryptography
09/07/2020
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Security flaws in a doll sparks concern over Smart Toys
18/12/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
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Optimised Multiplication Architectures for Accelerating Fully Homomorphic Encryption
28/07/2016
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities