Welcome
The Chair of Applied Cryptography (ChaAC) was founded in September 2016 under supervision of Prof. Dr. Dominique Schröder at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU). ChaAC is part of the Nuremberg Campus of Technology (NCT).
The overarching object of ChaAC is the development and analysis of cryptographic techniques, schemes and protocols that help to address a variety of IT security and privacy problems.
The paper “Polynomial-Time Construction of Two-Channel Prefix-Free Codes with Given Codeword Lengths” has been accepted to the IEEE Information Theory Workshop 2021. This is a joint work of Hoover H. F. Yin, Ka Hei Ng, Yu Ting Shing, Russell W. F. Lai and Xishi Wang.
Although n-channel prefix-fre... Continue
The paper “A Security Framework for Distributed Ledgers” has been accepted to the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2021. This is a joint work of Mike Graf, Daniel Rausch, Viktoria Ronge, Christoph Egger, Ralf Küsters and Dominique Schröder.
A pre-print is available at IACR ... Continue
On 17 September 2021 at 16:00 CEST, Thomas Attema will give a talk titled "Compressed Σ-Protocol Theory".
You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details:
https://fau.zoom.us/j/93409361471?pwd=YUZ2NFZYcGRBME5zUys4aTd4VmdtQT09
Meeting ID: 934 0936 1471 Passcode: 942451
Abstract:... Continue
The following two papers have been accepted to ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security 2021:
„OpenSquare: Decentralized Repeated Modular Squaring Service”
Authors: Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Adithya Bhat, Tiantian Gong, Aniket Kate and Dominique Schröder
Abstract: R... Continue
The paper "CoinJoin in the Wild: An Empirical Analysis in Dash" has been accepted to the 26th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. This is a joint work of Dominic Deuber and Dominique Schröder.
Below you will find the abstract of the paper.
CoinJoin is the predominant means to ... Continue
On 30 July 2021 at 16:30 CEST, Fabian Fleischer will give a talk titled “Introduction to Distributed Password-authenticated Symmetric Encryption”.
You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details:
https://fau.zoom.us/j/67655487037?pwd=UnhqanN1Mm53cEExQmxMTHpBd0QwQT09
Meeting ID: 676 ... Continue
