Success for CYSEC and CROSSING researcher

Cryptography expert receives the Copernicus Award

Their many years of joint cutting-edge research in the field of cryptography and IT security is honoured with a prestigious award: Sebastian Faust, Professor of Computer Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt, and Professor Dr. Stefan Dziembowski (University of Warsaw) will each receive half of the Copernicus Award 2020 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Fundacja na rzecz Nauki Polskiej (FNP, Foundation for Polish Science), which is endowed with 200,000 euros.

Congratulations to Lisa Eckey, Sebastian Faust, and Benjamin Schlosser for their paper “OptiSwap: Fast Optimistic Fair Exchange” which has been accepted to AsiaCCS 2020, the 15th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, to be held in Taipei, Taiwan on June 1-5, 2020.

Congratulations to Sebastian Faust and co-authors for their paper “Simple Refreshing in the Noisy Leakage Model” which has been accepted to Asiacrypt 2019, the 25th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, to be held in Kobe, Japan on December 8-12, 2019.

Congratulations to Poulami Das, Sebastian Faust, Julian Loss for their paper “A Formal Treatment of Deterministic Wallets”, which has been accepted to the 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security to be held in London, United Kingdom from November 11 to November 15, 2019.

Darmstädter Gründungsprojekte werden mit rund 1,5 Mio. Euro gefördert

Rechenstarke Computer und digitale Währungen sind Beispiele für neuartige Technologien, die innovative Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zum Schutz vor Cyber-Bedrohungen erfordern.

Congratulations to Kristina Hostáková and her co-authors for getting their paper “Continuous Space-Bounded Non-Malleable Codes from Stronger Proofs-of-Space” accepted at the conference CRYPTO 2019.