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.