The current Covid-19 pandemic has triggered an unforeseen interest in smartphone-based contract tracing technologies. If carefully designed and widely deployed, such systems may significantly help the medical authorities to track infection chains, prevent new outbreaks and thus save many lives. At the same time, any smartphone-based tracing solution has inherent privacy concerns. If the system
Last Friday, 100 ETH students from Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Maths competed in the CodeCon coding contest to be selected for the 2019 New York Security Challenge organized jointly by ETH Global, the Zurich Information Security & Privacy Center, and Bloomberg. We congratulate the six winners, Luca Di Bartolomeo, Simon Meinhard, Robin Jadoul, Emanuele
We are very pleased to announce that Prof. Kenny Paterson has joined our department as of April 1, 2019 and he becomes a new member of the increasing ZISC faculty! Prof. Kenny Paterson’s research is in the field of applied cryptography. He will be setting up a new research group called Applied Cryptography at the
The Risk center of ETH Zurich organized a dialogue event on blockchain technology on February 1, 2019. Prof. Capkun from the ZISC center was one of the speakers talking about how much trust and decentralization blockchains need. A video recording of the talk is available online. The event gathered a large crowd from both academia
World Economic Forum organized its annual gathering in Davos in January 2019. Also the ZISC center was present, as Prof. Capkun, the Director of ZISC, gave a talk about cyber-physical threats and how to eliminate them. See the video below. More interesting talks from the same session are available online.
Two-thirds of the world’s population, about five billion people, use smartphones or other mobile devices on a daily basis. They connect to the mobile network via their SIM cards and make calls, send texts, swap pictures, or make payments and purchases. For mobile providers, the business is worth billions. But not just for them. Again
System Security Group at ETH Zurich is looking for a PhD student and a postdoctoral researcher in Wireless Security. PhD Students should have an MSc (or equivalent) degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, and should have a background or strong interest in wireless communications technologies. Your application should include a cv and grade transcripts
Crypto Valley Labs at Zug is a gathering point for blockchain enthusiast, investors, developers, and researchers. Each month Crypto Valley Labs organizes meetings for people working in blockchain technology and business. This month Hubert Ritzdorf, a recent PhD graduate from ETH Zurich and the CTO of ChainSecurity, a ZISC spin-off company focusing on blockchain security,
IC3, an initiative of faculty members at Cornell University, Cornell Tech, UC Berkeley, UIUC, and the Technion, offers world-class expertise in computer science that spans cryptography, distributed systems, game theory, programming languages, and system security techniques. IC3’s innovations include new blockchains, smart contracts, and cryptocurrency technologies that offer both the scientifically rigorous security properties and
ZISC researchers Hubert Ritzdorf, Karl Wust, Arthur Gervais, Guillaume Felley, Srdjan Capkun have released TLS-N, an extension of TLS that enables the seamless integration of non-repudiation between arbitrary parties within TLS. TLS-N allows the generation of privacy-preserving, non-repudiable, non-interactive proofs for the contents of a TLS session. TLS-N provides a trusted data relay. Therefore, it