The paper „Anonymous Multi-hop Locks for Blockchain Scalability and Interoperability“ by Giulio Malavolta, co-authored by Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Clara Schneidewind, Aniket Kate and Matteo Maffei, has been accepted at Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2019. Continue

The paper „A Family of FDH Signature Schemes Based on the Quadratic Residuosity Assumption” by Giuseppe Ateniese, Katharina Fech and Bernardo Magri has been accepted at Indocrypt 2018. Katharina Fech will present the paper on 11 December 2018. Continue

On 15 August 2018, Russell Lai gave a talk on “Simple Password-Hardened Encryption Services” at University of Maryland. Continue

The articles Multi-Key Homomorphic Signatures Unforgeable under Insider Corruption (Russell W. F. Lai, Raymond K. H. Tai, Harry W. H. Wong, Sherman S. M. Chow) as well as Homomorphic Secret Sharing for Low Degree Polynomials (Russell W. F. Lai, Giulio Malavolta, Dominique Schröder) have been accepte... Continue

On 19 July 2018, Prof. Dr. Dominique Schröder will give a talk about the foundations of blockchain technology at FIS GmbH. Continue

On 28 June 2018, Prof. Dr. Dominique Schröder will give a talk at Nuremberg Institute of Technology Georg Simon Ohm: Thursday, 28 June 2018, 5:30 p.m., Hohfederstr. 40, lecture hall HQ.105 The talk will be given in German language - more information can be found here. Continue

The Chair of Applied Cryptography will host the Theory of Cryptography Conference 2019 in Nuremberg. Program Chairs are Dennis Hofheinz of KIT and Alon Rosen. Continue

The paper Simple Password-Hardened Encryption Services will appear in USENIX Security 2018. Researchers involved from this chair are Russell W. F. Lai, Christoph Egger, and Dominique Schröder. To read the paper, please click here.  Continue