ZISC researcher Aanjhan Ranganathan was awarded the ETH medal for his PhD thesis titled “Physical-layer Techniques for Secure Proximity Verification & Localization”. Today, we live in a physical world where location and proximity information are ubiquitously used in a wide variety of systems. For example, contactless access tokens that use proximity information are prevalent today
Cryptocurrencies are attracting increasing media attention. Currencies, such as Bitcoin, provide many new opportunities, but such systems do not come without risks. Prof. Capkun, the Director of ZISC center, was interviewed by the Swiss national television (SRF) regarding anonymity in Bitcoin and similar blockchain currencies. See the video clip below (in German):
On Tuesday December 20 we celebrated the official launch of the ZISC OpenLab together with our industry partners. Below you find a few impressions from the opening event.
Three ETH Zurich researchers have received ERC Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). Their projects will each receive approximately 2 million Swiss francs in funding. Prof. Capkun, the director of the ZISC center, is one of the recipients of this prestigious research grant. Cyber-physical systems like autonomous cars and drones use in order
We are very excited to announce that Swiss Post has signed a research partnership agreement with the ZISC center! Data protection, security and reliability are essential for Swiss Post’s digital future. From voting envelopes to e-voting, from medical records to eHealth, from piles of mail on the kitchen table to E-Post Office. To bring the
Prof. Adrian Perrig has been named a Fellow of ACM. ZISC congratulates Prof. Perrig on this great achievement! Further information about the 2016 ACM Fellows is available at http://awards.acm.org/. From a related press release (December 8, 2016): ACM, the world’s leading computing society, has named 53 of its members as ACM Fellows for major contributions
Data protection and security are of utmost importance to SIX as the main infrastructure provider for the Swiss financial center. To be even nearer to the beating heart of science, a twelve-year research cooperation agreement with Zurich Information Security and Privacy Center (ZISC) at the ETH was sealed yesterday, making SIX an active cooperation partner
This week Arthur Gervais, a PhD student at ETH Zurich and ZISC center, presented a new research paper titled “On the Security and Performance of Proof of Work Blockchains” at the ACM CCS 2016 conference in Vienna. A technology website CoinDesk interviewed Arthur Gervais about his research results: “A small tweak to bitcoin could have
Each year, the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) seeks services, products, and business innovations that use satellite navigation in everyday life. In the 2016 edition, prizes are awarded by some of the most relevant institutional GNSS stakeholders, such as the European GNSS Agency (GSA), the European Space Agency (ESA), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), and
Prof. Capkun gave a talk on Secure Proximity Detection at the TTI/Vanguard Cybersecurity 2016 conference in September. Here’s a video of the presentation. A related video shows a technical demonstration of the secure proximity detection technology in action. For more information on new secure proximity detection technologies, see also the 3DB Technologies website.