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
Lead by Prof. Kenny Paterson, a brand-new course started this semester. It will introduce the basic primitives of cryptography, using rigorous syntax and game-based security definitions. The course will show how these primitives can be combined to build cryptographic protocols and systems. The goal of the course is to put students’ understanding of cryptography on
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