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The defense of Dominic Deuber’s dissertation titled “Cryptocurrencies within the conflicting tension between law and IT security” will take place on 31 March 2023 at 3:00 PM CEST. This is a hybrid event, taking place at Fürther Str. 246c, 90429 Nürnberg, and online via Zoom. You can join the Z...

On 27. March 2023 at 1 pm, Tobias Büttner will present his master thesis titled “Security of Helium’s Native Blockchain Protocol and its Proof of Coverage”. You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details: https://fau.zoom.us/j/69837338832?pwd=WUxvcTh6ZDkzYzdhck9lTEJTWlVhUT09 Meet...

On 27. February 2023 at 1 pm, Julian Kotzur will present his master thesis titled “Signature Security Revisited: One Dice to Rule Them All”. You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details: https://fau.zoom.us/j/62884532458?pwd=S0I5ZGoxMmFDcWlrblpqeVZNT2owZz09 Meeting ID: 628 8453...

Am 22. December 2022 at 5:45pm, Matthias Lobenhofer will present his bachelor thesis titled „Anonymity Analysis of JoinMarket“. You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details: https://fau.zoom.us/j/69294317201?pwd=YW5DZDdMSlRIOGtoQzVQVllzRlFvdz09 Meeting ID: 692 9431 7201 Passcod...

On 22. Dezember 2022 at 5pm, Koffi Tino Gnagniko will present his bachelor thesis titled „Thora protocol enhanced with SALRS to ensure payers and payees privacy“. You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details: https://fau.zoom.us/j/65767077997?pwd=c2ZMV29WK3lpUlZqMTJiY1B4VGliZz09 ...

On 9 December 2022 at 10am, Christoph Striecks from the Australian Institute of Technology (AIT) will give a talk on forward security. Location: big seminar room at our chair (Fürther Str 246c/Entry 5/ 2. floor) "Forward security is an essential design goal of modern cryptographic protocols wi...

On 13 December 2022 at 18h, Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland) will give a talk titled „Zero Knowledge Proofs and Potential Legal Applications“. Location: Room 12.150, Martensstraße 3, 91058 Erlangen. "In this talk I will introduce the notion of zero-knowledge proofs and survey some of the...

The paper „Assessing Anonymity Techniques Employed in German Court Decisions: A De-Anonymization Experiment“ has been accepted to 32nd USENIX Security Symposium. This is a joint work of Dominic Deuber, Michael Keuchen and Nicolas Christin. Democracy requires transparency. Consequently, courts of ...

The defense of Christoph Egger’s dissertation, titled “On Abstraction and Modularization in Protocol Analysis” will take place on 7 October 2022 at 1:00 PM CEST. You can join the Zoom meeting using the following details: https://fau.zoom.us/j/69761460307?pwd=bXorOG5mSkRCdVVrbW1TODFzRFY3UT09 ...

The paper „Verifiable Timed Linkable Ring Signatures For Scalable Payments for Monero“ has been accepted to 27th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security. This is a joint work of Sri Aravindakrishnan Thyagarajan, Giulio Malavolta, Fritz Schmidt and Dominique Schröder. Decentralized cry...