LoRa Radio Lessons on Electronic Warfare
Speakers IS2 2026
Tomáš Rosa & Jiří Pavlů
Wireless telemetric networks built on the LoRa (Long Range) radio standard are gaining notable momentum. They appear in a wide range of architectures, from commercial deployments such as LoRaWAN to community-driven and prepper-oriented systems like Meshtastic or Meshcore. At first glance, one might downplay them as yet another IoT solution. However, a deeper look reveals that LoRa platforms offer valuable lessons extending far beyond their immediate applications. Despite their limitations being evident, they provide a practical and accessible environment to explore key concepts of resilience, digital sovereignty, and security in radio telemetry. We emphasize security does not only focus on classical goals, such as authentication, confidentiality, and integrity, here. In radio battle field, covert transmissions and jamming resistance are equally important. Understanding these aspects contributes directly to building a strategic advantage in electronic warfare. As LoRa naturally supports dual-use technologies, these insights are equally available to potential adversaries. It is also starring in many cross-technology TEMPEST scenarios. Therefore, there are good reasons to master this field fast and well.

Tomáš Rosa
Raiffeisen Bank International
Tomáš holds Ph.D. in cryptology with the Best Doctoral Work Award of Czech Technical University for the year 2004. He actively develops and promotes general mathematical modelling of security systems. Natural applications of this approach are, for instance, the side and covert channels attacks, where he gained notable results. His work helped to improve many world-wide standards, such as: PGP, TLS, EMV payment protocol, Bluetooth, and GNSS. Tomáš is the chief mathematical security architect at the Cryptology and Biometrics Competence Centre of Raiffeisen Bank International group. He also lectures mathematical modelling of security at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague.

Jiří Pavlů
Matematicko-fyzikální fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze
He is a graduate of the Master's program in Mathematics for Information Technology at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University. He focuses on theoretical cryptography, particularly the security and usability of symmetric ciphers, as well as coding theory. He is a cryptologist and an expert in mathematical security at the Competence Center for Cryptology and Biometrics of Raiffeisen Bank International, and he teaches mathematical modeling of security at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University in Prague.
