Researchers from ETH Zurich’s Department of Computer Science (D-INFK) have been awarded the prestigious Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography at this year’s Real World Cryptography Conference. The prize recognizes outstanding contributions that have significantly advanced the practical deployment of cryptographic systems. Professor David Basin and lecturer Ralf Sasse received the award together with Professors Cas
Zürcher Kantonalbank (ZKB) is extending its ZISC partnership for another 10 years, reaffirming its long-term commitment to strengthening research and education in information security, data protection and artificial intelligence at ETH Zurich. Security and reliability, the handling of sensitive data and protection against unauthorized access are core competencies of Zürcher Kantonalbank. “The security of digital
The ZISC center has published its annual report for 2025. The information security landscape is undergoing a significant disruption. The reason behind this is the rapid emergence of new technologies like AI on the one hand, but also the prospect of quantum technologies. On a geopolitical level, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East
Professor Adrian Perrig, who leads the Network Security Group at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the prestigious ESORICS 2025 Outstanding Research Award. The award recognises Perrig’s long-standing contributions to building secure network systems and his pioneering work on the SCION Internet architecture. SCION (Scalability, Control, and Isolation On Next-Generation
ZISC researchers from the groups led by Professor Srdjan Capkun and ETH Assistant Professor Shweta Shinde have developed a new software architecture that can divide a smartphone up into several isolated domains that are completely independent of one another. Now, the two post-doctoral researchers Ivan Puddu and Moritz Schneider have founded the spin-off Soverli, which
Dennis Hofheinz, Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich, has been awarded the Test of Time Award for his 2017 paper, co-authored with Professor Eike Kiltz (Ruhr-University Bochum) and Professor Kathrin Hövelmanns (Eindhoven University of Technology). The paper, “A Modular Analysis of the Fujisaki-Okamoto Transformation”, proved influential in the development of
We are extremely pleased to announce that Swissquote has joined the ZISC center. Swissquote is Switzerland’s market leader in digital banking. Over three million financial products can be traded on its innovative platforms. Swissquote’s core competencies include global stock market trading, the trading and custody of crypto assets, forex trading aas well as savings and
Professor Kaveh Razavi joins the ZISC Faculty. Prof. Razavi is an associate professor in the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering at ETH Zürich where he leads the Computer Security Group. He is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science. His research interests include computer systems and security with a special focus on
The ZISC center has published its annual report for 2024. During this year, ZISC continued to work on its core mission which is work on significant and fundamental information security and privacy problems together with is industry partners. Particular topics of focus this year included the research on sovereign smartphone platform, email phishing in large
Researchers from the SPY Lab led by Professor Florian Tramèr along with collaborators have succeeded in extracting secret information on the large language model behind ChatGPT. The team responsibly disclosed the results of their “model stealing attack” to OpenAI. Following the disclosure, the company immediately implemented countermeasures to protect the model. This work represents the