Associate professor (agregat) at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Computer Engineering and Mathematics Dept.
Coordinator of the PhD programme in Computer Science and Mathematics of Security.
email: oriol.farras [at] urv.cat
Address: Office 137, ETSE, Campus Sescelades, E-43007 Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.
Research interests: secret sharing schemes, cryptography, information theory, matroid theory, and combinatorics.
Upcoming events:
Combinatorial Geometries and Geometric Combinatorics. Fall 2025. CRM
Congrés Armari 6 de Ciberseguretat. October 23-24. Vielha
Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC). December 1-5. Aarhus
Discrete Math Days. June 29-July 1. Granada
News:
Improving the Selection Rule of Correlation Attacks for Remote Power Analysis, a joint work with Vicent Grosso, Miquel Guiot and Carlos-Andres Lara-Nino, accepted at CHES 2026. At eprint.
Polynomial Secret Sharing Schemes and Algebraic Matroids, a joint work with Amos Beimel and Adriana Moya, accepted at TCC 2025. At eprint.
Presentation at Jornadas sobre Criptografía Aplicada a la Seguridad y a la Privacidad, September 2, Castro Urdiales.
Optimizing Extension Techniques for Discovering Non-Algebraic Matroids, a joint work with Michael Bamiloshin, accepted in Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics. Also at arXiv.
A Note on Extension Properties and Representations of Matroids, a joint work with Michael Bamiloshin and Carles Padró, published at Discrete Applied Mathematics. At arXiv.
Traceable Secret Sharing Schemes for General Access Structures, a joint work with Miquel Guiot, at eprint
Presentation at Jornada d’Impuls i Balanç de les Àrees Digitals de Catalunya.
PhD thesis defense of Emanuele Giunta: On the Limitations of Black-Box Constructions in Cryptography. Congratulations! Member of the thesis committee.
Organizer of the Workshop on Secret Sharing Schemes, May 12-14, Tarragona. It was fantastic!!!
Teaching:
(1st sem.) Cryptography and Information Security (MESIIA).
(2nd sem.) Cryptography and Blockchain Technology (MECMAT), Matemàtica Discreta II (GEI).
Current PhD students:
Miquel Guiot (2024-)
Adriana Moya (2023-)
Research groups and Projects: CRISES, Discrete and Algorithmic Mathematics Spanish network, Red RISC-V, CYBERCAT, DRAC.
Program Committee (latest): Workshop on Secret Sharing Schemes, EUROCRYPT 2025, CCS 2024, ACNS 2023, Encuentro Ibérico de Matemáticas 2022, Latincrypt 2021, TCC 2020, Itinerant Cryptography Seminars, RECSI, DCSM 2022-25.