The paper “MEGA – Malleable Encryption Goes Awry” by Matilda Backendal, Miro Haller and Kenny Paterson from the Applied Crypto Group was accepted to the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2023. MEGA is a cloud-based storage system with 250 million users worldwide, storing more than 1000 Petabytes of data. The team uncovered five significant
The paper “Four Attacks and a Proof for Telegram” by Kenny Paterson, former Applied Crypto group member Igors Stepanovs and collaborators Martin Albrecht and Lenka Mareková from Royal Holloway, University of London was awarded with a distinguished paper award at the prestigious IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2022. The paper, about which we had
Researchers from the Applied Cryptography Group at ETH Zürich are part of a team who recently published a research paper investigating the security of Telegram, a popular “messaging app with a focus on security and speed”, claiming to offer “heavily encrypted” messaging (citing https://telegram.org, visited on 02.08.2021). Contrary to other messaging apps such as Signal