Google Fellowship to Ł. Mazurek

We are happy to announce that Łukasz Mazurek received the 2014 Google PhD Fellowship.

Congratulations to Łukasz!

Best Paper Award at IEEE S&P'14

We are happy to annouce that our paper

Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski, and Łukasz Mazurek
Secure Multiparty Computations on BitCoin

won the Best Paper Award at the 35th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy(Oakland) 2014.

Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt'14

We are happy to annouce that the paper

Alexandre Duc, Stefan Dziembowski, Sebastian Faust
Unifying leakage models: from probing attacks to noisy leakage

won the Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2014 (shared with the paper A heuristic quasi-polynomial algorithm for discrete logarithm in finite fields of small characteristic).

Alexandre Duc, Stefan Dziembowski and
Sebastian Faust receiving the award
(photo by Nigel Smart)

We joined a crypto COST action

Recently we became a part of the COST Action IC1306 Cryptography for Secure Digital Interaction.

COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research on a European level. The goal of the IC1306 action is to stimulate interaction between the different national efforts in order to develop new cryptographic solutions and to evaluate the security of deployed algorithms with applications to the secure digital interactions between citizens, companies and governments.

A paper accepted to AFRICACRYPT

Our paper:

Stefan Dziembowski and Maciej Zdanowicz
Position-Based Cryptography from the Noisy Channels

has been accepted to the 7th International Conference on Cryptology in Africa AFRICACRYPT 2014.

Papers at EUROCRYPT and S&P

We are happy to announce that a paper 

• Marcin Andrychowicz, Stefan Dziembowski, Daniel Malinowski and Łukasz Mazurek Secure Multiparty Computations on Bitcoin was accepted to the 35th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P Oakland) 2014

and a paper

• Alexandre Duc, Stefan Dziembowski, and Sebastian Faust Unifying leakage models: from probing attacks to noisy leakage was accepted to the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques EUROCRYPT 2014

Both IEEE S&P and EUROCRYPT are leading conferences in the area of cryptography and data security.

A gift from Intel Corporation

Our group has recently received a gift from the Intel Corporation (via the Intel Labs Security Curriculum Initiative) that will support our teaching efforts.  The amount is 15.000 USD and it will be shared with the group of Dr. Aleksy Schubert.