Prof. Ueli Maurer and his PhD student Fabio Banfi , both part of Information Security and Cryptography research group at the ETH Institute of Theoretical Computer Science published a very interesting paper that was presented at this year’s Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks (SCN 2020). It deals with the anonymity of probabilistic encryption (pE) and probabilistic authenticated encryption
A recently published survey by ZISC members revealed the questionable state of a substantial part of the Swiss paper-voting system. When Swiss citizens vote on constitutional or legislative issues, usually on a Sunday, their paper-ballots are counted, carefully summarised on paper reports, and then sent to the cantonal chancellery by post. Finally, they are submitted
At this year’s SIGCOMM conference, the flagship annual conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communication, Prof. Adrian Perrig, Dr. Markus Legner, and Juan A. García-Pardo from the Network Security Group and Prof. David Hausheer from the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg hosted a tutorial on the next-generation Internet architecture SCION. Participants learned about revolutionary properties and
A PIN code is usually required at the checkout when paying large sums by credit card. A group of researchers under Prof. David Basin have now discovered a flaw in the security system of some credit cards. Credit cards that enable contactless payments are extremely popular. Small amounts can be charged quickly and easily at
Under Prof. Adrian Perrig‘s and Prof. David Basin‘s supervision, a group of researchers published a new paper on a fascinating topic: Internet Backbones in Space. Satellite constellation networks are one of the most recent and exciting developments in networking. Renewed interest in this area has been sparked by an unprecedented wave of investments to develop
Prof. David Basin, who is part of ZISC faculty, and Prof. Joachim Buhmann, as well as former doctoral student Mario Frank, have received the Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT) Test of Time Award. The three are awarded for their paper “On the Definition of Role Mining”, published at SACMAT in 2010, which
Trading in digital currencies such as Bitcoin or Ether has become an established practice, but using them as a payment is still a slow process. ZISC Director and ETH Professor Srdjan Capkun and his team have now developed a system that makes cryptocurrency payments secure, fast and practical. Concentrating on Ether, the team developed a
The committee of the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has honoured Prof. Adrian Perrig with four Test-of-Time awards for papers published in the 12-year period between 1995 and 2006 of which he was an author. Nine papers, which have withstood the test of time, were awarded at the 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy,
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
The ZISC center is happy to promote and support the new fellowship program from our ZISC partner armasuisse and its Cyber-Defence (CYD) campus: CYD Fellowships – A Talent Program for Cyber-Defence Research. CYD Fellowships are designed to promote new solutions to major challenges in the fields of security and data science by bringing together basic