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13 January 2023
University of Innsbruck, Austria, EU
The University of Innsbruck, located in the heart of the alps, has a tenure track opportunity in the field of cryptography.
The Department of Computer Science is looking for an ambitious researcher to build a bridge between the interdisciplinary approach taken by its Security & Privacy Lab and theoretical research groups, like Computational Logic and Theoretical Computer Science. Research activities would focus on producing evidence on the security or privacy of cryptographic systems covering theory and/or implementation. The individual should be comfortable teaching multiple approaches to cryptography. The ideal candidate would build a research group on cryptography in the course of the tenure process, the details of which are negotiated in the first year of employment as routinely done in the Austrian academic system.
Tyrol, Austria is one of the most livable places in Europe with world-class healthcare, excellent social security, and free education from kindergarden to university.
Applications are due on 7 March 2023. Follow the link above for more details.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Rainer Böhme -- rainer.boehme at uibk.ac.at
More information: https://informationsecurity.uibk.ac.at/pdfs/vacancy_cryptography_2023.pdf
Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit "Innovation for Cybersecurity"
Head of Cryptology Unit (m/f/d)
in the middle of Germany starting at the earliest possible date.
The most important resource for the Cyberagentur are satisfied, motivated and hard-working employees. Our goal is to offer an inspiring and creative environment in a great team. Our mission is to identify tomorrow’s topics in cyber security and related key technologies. We fund and supervise exciting and outstanding research projects. By doing so, we support Germany’s future technological leadership as well as the nation’s digital sovereignty.
Modern cryptographic methods are essential building blocks of the cyber security for tomorrow and beyond. At the Cyberagentur, you will work on current topics such as encrypted computing, zero trust and holistic authentication. With your team, you will accompany attractive calls for tenders in the field of cryptology research, be an essential part of the evaluation of research projects, and accompany commissioned research projects from initiation to completion, thus ensuring the quality and usability of the results. Internally, you will contribute to our knowledge management in this domain. Furthermore, you will take appropriate measures to ensure that Germany remains an attractive location for research in cryptology.
Have we aroused your interest? Then apply now!
You can find the exact details of the position in German on our career page.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Matthias Strauß
Head of HR
More information: https://app.connectoor.de/jobview?jobid=62d93ff0ddb2330e1d8b456e
Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit "Innovation for Cybersecurity"
Research Officer Cryptology (m/f/d)
in the middle of Germany starting at the earliest possible date.
The most important resource for the Cyberagentur are satisfied, motivated and hard-working employees. Our goal is to offer an inspiring and creative environment in a great team. Our mission is to identify tomorrow’s topics in cyber security and related key technologies. We fund and supervise exciting and outstanding research projects. By doing so, we support Germany’s future technological leadership as well as the nation’s digital sovereignty.
Modern cryptographic methods are essential building blocks of the cyber security for tomorrow and beyond. At the Cyberagentur, you will work on current topics such as encrypted computing, zero trust and holistic authentication. With your team, you will accompany attractive calls for tenders in the field of cryptology research, be an essential part of the evaluation of research projects, and accompany commissioned research projects from initiation to completion, thus ensuring the quality and usability of the results. Internally, you will contribute to our knowledge management in this domain. Furthermore, you will take appropriate measures to ensure that Germany remains an attractive location for research in cryptology.
Have we aroused your interest? Then apply now!
You can find the details of the position in German on our career page.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Matthias Strauß
Head of HR
More information: https://app.connectoor.de/jobview?jobid=62d506deddb233fc338b4579
Northern Arizona University, School of Informatics Computing and Cyber Systems; Flagstaff, AZ
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Human Resources
More information: https://apptrkr.com/3778561
QuSoft / University of Amsterdam & CWI
- Stacey Jeffery (quantum computing and theoretical computer science);
- Ludovico Lami (quantum resources and entanglement theory);
- John van de Wetering (quantum circuit compilation);
- Christian Schaffner (key management in quantum networks, quantum-safe cryptography)
Applications received by 15 January 2023 will receive full consideration. For full details on the positions and how to apply, see
- https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/QuSoft-PhD/761215402/
- https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-in-Quantum-Safe-Cryptography/748964602/
- https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/QuSoft-PostDoc/761748202/
PhD: your salary will range between €2,541 in the first year to €3,247 gross per month in the last year of employment. A Master’s degree is required. PostDoc: your salary will range between € 2,960 and € 4,670 gross per month, depending on relevant experience.
In either case, these figures are based on a full working week of 38 hours. They do not include the 8% holiday allowance and the 8,3% year-end allowance the UvA offers. A favourable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Christian Schaffner
More information: https://qusoft.org/qusoft-vacancies/
Visa Research, Palo Alto CA
Currently, we focus on building research teams in key areas: Data Analytics, Cryptography, and Future of Payment(Blockchain), and Artificial Intelligence. We are looking for outstanding researcher interns as part of the growing team!
Visa Research’s goal of security is to enable policy-enforced, full lifecycle protection for data at rest, in transit and during computation for all payment-related scenarios. We accomplish this through fundamental and applied research in the areas of security and cryptography.
The internship will focus on developing new and impactful research in the chosen area. You will work closely with our team members to define and solve a state of the art research problem. In most cases, the final deliverable will be a research publication at a top-tier conference. Candidates should have a strong publication record and be able to perform research in both a group and self-guided setting.
Specific areas of interest include but not limited to:
- Secure Multiparty Computation
- Post Quantum Cryptography
- Quantum Cryptography
- Zero Knowledge Proofs
- Blockchain & Consenous Protocols
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Peter Rindal perindal@visa.com
More information: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Visa/743999874588501-intern-visa-research-phd-
Queen's University Belfast, Electrical and Electronic engineering
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Dr Arnab Kumar Biswas
More information: https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research/phd-opportunities/secure-multitenant-and-federated-satellite-system.html
Queen's University Belfast, Electrical and Electronic engineering
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Dr Arnab Kumar Biswas
More information: https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research/phd-opportunities/a-trusted-execution-environment-based-framework-for-securing-legacy-embedded-systems.html
11 January 2023
Jeffrey Burdges, Handan Kılınç Alper, Alistair Stewart, Sergey Vasilyev
Aydin Abadi, Steven Murdoch
Sarah Scheffler, Anunay Kulshrestha, Jonathan Mayer
Recent applied cryptography advances enable private hash matching (PHM), where a service can match user content against a set of known CSAM images without revealing the hash set to users or nonmatching content to the service. These designs, especially a 2021 proposal for identifying CSAM in Apple's iCloud Photos service, have attracted widespread criticism for creating risks to security, privacy, and free expression.
In this work, we aim to advance scholarship and dialogue about PHM by contributing new cryptographic methods for system verification by the general public. We begin with motivation, describing the rationale for PHM to detect CSAM and the serious societal and technical issues with its deployment. Verification could partially address shortcomings of PHM, and we systematize critiques into two areas for auditing: trust in the hash set and trust in the implementation. We explain how, while these two issues cannot be fully resolved by technology alone, there are possible cryptographic trust improvements.
The central contributions of this paper are novel cryptographic protocols that enable three types of public verification for PHM systems: (1) certification that external groups approve the hash set, (2) proof that particular lawful content is not in the hash set, and (3) eventual notification to users of false positive matches. The protocols that we describe are practical, efficient, and compatible with existing PHM constructions.
10 January 2023
Virtual event, Anywhere on Earth, 29 June - 30 June 2023
Submission deadline: 7 February 2023
Notification: 14 March 2023
Benevento, Italy, 29 August - 1 September 2023
Submission deadline: 9 March 2022
Notification: 23 May 2022
09 January 2023
Elette Boyle, Niv Gilboa, Yuval Ishai, Victor I. Kolobov
We present the first statistically private 3-server DPF for domain size $N$ with subpolynomial key size $N^{o(1)}$. We also present a similar perfectly private 4-server DPF. Our constructions offer benefits over their computationally secure counterparts, beyond the superior security guarantee, including better computational complexity and better protocols for distributed key generation, all while having comparable communication complexity for moderate-sized parameters.
Katharina Kreuzer
Hanno Böck
Hong-Wei Sun, Bin-Bin Cai, Su-Juan Qin, Qiao-Yan Wen, Fei Gao
Alexandros Bakas, Antonis Michalas
Stéphanie Delaune, Patrick Derbez, Arthur Gontier, Charles Prud'homme
Florian Stolz, Marc Fyrbiak, Pascal Sasdrich, Tim Güneysu
In this work, we first systematically analyze the state of the art in defenses for both software exploitation and fault attacks on embedded systems. We then carefully design a holistic instruction set extension to augment the RISC-V instruction set architecture with instructions to deter against the threats analyzed in this work. Moreover we implement our design using the gem5 simulator system and a binary translation approach to arm software with our instruction set extension. Finally, we evaluate performance overhead on the MiBench2 benchmark suite. Our evaluation demonstrates a ROM overhead increase of 20% to defeat the aforementioned attacks.