About ZISC
The world is undergoing a dramatic transformation. New information technologies emerge at rapid pace and these innovations have a significant impact on our social, political, and economic lives. The change does not come without risks. The goal of ZISC is to bring academia and industry together to solve the information security challenges of tomorrow. ZISC is an industry-funded research center of ETH Zurich where PhD students and senior researchers perform academic research under the supervision of ETH faculty members.
News and activities
- Applied Crypto Group wins Best Paper Award at PKC 2023 May 28, 2023
- ZISC Report 2022 is published December 19, 2022
- ZISC Chair Prof. Srdjan Capkun named IEEE fellow December 1, 2022
- Applied Crypto Group wins Distinguished Paper Award at ACM CCS November 11, 2022
- Digital emblem for International Red Cross November 7, 2022
- Distinguished Artifact Award at USENIX Security 2022 August 18, 2022
- MEGA – Malleable Encryption Goes Awry June 29, 2022
- IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy Distinguished Paper Award June 29, 2022
- Test-of-time award at IEEE S&P 2022 June 9, 2022
- Design for Digital Cash nominated for ETH Spark Award May 9, 2022
- Solving deceptive cookie banners with machine learning March 31, 2022
- SCION enters everyday service January 20, 2022
Recent publications
Matilda Backendal, Miro Haller and Kenneth G. Paterson
MEGA: Malleable Encryption Goes Awry
Won Distinguished Paper Award at 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP 2023)
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Jinhua Cui, Shweta Shinde, Satyaki Sen, Prateek Saxena, Pinghai Yuan
Dynamic Binary Translation for SGX Enclaves
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2022
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Hannah Davis, Denis Diemert, Felix Günther, Tibor Jager
On the Concrete Security of TLS 1.3 PSK Mode
To appear in Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2022
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Paul Grubbs, Varun Maram, Kenneth G. Paterson
Anonymous, Robust Post-Quantum Public Key Encryption
To appear in Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2022
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