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13 February 2023
Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Applicants must have at least a 2:1 Honours Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or closely related discipline.
International studentships are also available.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Dr. Ayesha Khalid
More information: https://www.qub.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate-research/phd-opportunities/fault-tolerant-post-quantum-cryptography-systems-for-satellite-communications.html
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
The Department of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo invites applications from qualified candidates for a 1.5-year position as a Cryptographic Research Architect on the Open Quantum Safe project (https://openquantumsafe.org/).
This position is available immediately in Professor Stebila’s research group. You will be working with a world-wide team of researchers and developers from academia and industry on the Open Quantum Safe project. You will have the opportunity to push the boundaries of applied post-quantum cryptography and contribute to various open-source projects. You will help integrate new post-quantum cryptographic algorithms into the liboqs open-source library, and design and implement techniques for evaluating and benchmarking these cryptographic algorithms in a variety of contexts.
The field of post-quantum cryptography is rapidly evolving, and you will need to track ongoing changes to algorithms due to peer review and advances by researchers via the the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography project forum. In addition to algorithm research, tasks cover all aspects of the software development lifecycle and include design, programming cryptographic algorithms, integrating other cryptographic implementations into the liboqs framework, integrating liboqs into 3rd party open-source projects, testing, benchmarking and documentation. You may be asked to take an ownership role in coordinating the development of various sub-component of the Open Quantum Safe project.
The appointment will be a full-time position for 18 months with the possibility of extension, pending on research funding. The salary range is $80,000–$115,000/year and commensurate with experience.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.
For more information on the position and how to apply, please see https://openquantumsafe.org/team/open-positions
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Douglas Stebila (dstebila@uwaterloo.ca)
More information: https://openquantumsafe.org/team/open-positions
Chalmers University of Technology
The position is fully funded for five years with possible extensions for parental or sick leave, and an attractive salary. The position is linked to a project funded by the Swedish research council focusing on the security and efficiency of progressive verification for cryptographic schemes. If you think this sounds cool, follow the link below and apply!
Applicants are expected to hold an MSc degree in Mathematics and/or Computer Science. Knowledge of cryptographic primitives and information security is preferable, but not mandatory. Only applications via the official portal will be considered.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: For more information check out:
- The official ad: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=11434&rmlang=UK
- Elena's webpage: https://epagnin.github.io
More information: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/work-with-us/vacancies/?rmpage=job&rmjob=11434&rmlang=UK
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute of Information Systems
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Personal und Recht / Bewerbungsmanagement Code: WiMi Network Science Universitätsallee 1 21335 Lüneburg bewerbung@leuphana.de
University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
Key Responsibilities:
- The post-doctoral fellow is expected to perform exciting and challenging research in the area of information security and cryptography including the design of provably secure cryptographic protocols.
- The post-doctoral fellow shall be involved in the supervision of PhD and master students
- The post-doctoral researcher is expected to have a PhD degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Mathematics and a strong background in theoretical computer science and cryptography
- Have an excellent publication record in top venues Competitive research record in cryptography or information security
- Strong mathematical and algorithmic CS background
- Good skills in programming is beneficial
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Please apply asap.
Closing date for applications:
Contact:
Eriane Breu, eriane.breu@unisg.ch (Administrative matters)
Prof. Katerina Mitrokotsa, katerina.mitrokotsa@unisg.ch (Research related questions)
More information: https://jobs.unisg.ch/offene-stellen/postdoc-fellow-in-cryptography-information-security-m-w-d/c35410fb-40bb-41f2-b298-8be150d8f9b6
University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
The student is expected to work on topics that include security and privacy issues in authentication. More precisely, the students will be working on investigating efficient and privacy-preserving authentication that provides: i) provable security guarantees, and ii) rigorous privacy guarantees.
Key Responsibilities:
- Perform exciting and challenging research in the domain of information security and cryptography.
- Support and assist in teaching computer security and cryptography courses.
- The PhD students are expected to have a MSc degree or equivalent, and strong background in cryptography, network security and mathematics.
- Experience in one or more domains such as cryptography, design of protocols, secure multi-party computation and differential privacy is beneficial.
- Excellent programming skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
Please apply asap.
Closing date for applications:
Contact:
Eriane Breu, eriane.breu@unisg.ch (Administrative matters)
Prof. Katerina Mitrokotsa, katerina.mitrokotsa@unisg.ch (Research related questions)
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
The Symmetric Key and Lightweight Cryptography Lab (SyLLab) at NTU Singapore is looking for candidates for Research Fellow/Post-Doc (from fresh Post-Docs to Senior Research Fellows, flexible contract duration) as well as PhD student positions on various topics:
- Symmetric-key cryptography (cryptanalysis, design),
- Machine learning,
- Side-channels attacks,
- Fully homomorphic encryption.
Candidates are expected to have a proven record of publications in top cryptography/security venues.
The positions will be funded by the 5-year National Research Foundation (NRF) Investigatorship grant from Singapore. Salaries are competitive and are determined according to the successful applicant's accomplishments, experience and qualifications. We offer an excellent research environment with a highly international team, with flexible working conditions, budget for conferences/equipment, etc.
Interested applicants should send their detailed CVs and references to Prof. Thomas Peyrin (thomas.peyrin@ntu.edu.sg). The review of applications starts immediately and will continue until positions are filled.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Thomas Peyrin
More information: https://thomaspeyrin.github.io/web/
09 February 2023
Brisbane, Australia, 5 July - 7 July 2023
Submission deadline: 13 February 2023
Notification: 15 April 2023
Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT), Queen’s University Belfast, UK
The DTP provides an opportunity to advance research in these exciting cyber security areas, focus on entreprise and leadership skills, have access to modules on our certified MSc in Advanced Cyber Security and MSc AI and a dedicated training programme, and interact with CSIT industry partners.
Applicants must have at least a 2:1 Honours Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or closely related discipline.
International studentships are also available.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Dr Jesus Martinez DelRincon
More information: https://www.qub.ac.uk/ecit/CSIT/Cyber-AIHub/CSIT-DTP/
08 February 2023
Nominations for these awards should be sent to the chair of the FSE steering committee by February 20 2023.
See: https://tosc.iacr.org/index.php/ToSC/ToT_Award
See https://fse.iacr.org/2023 for details.
The period of public comments is open till April 10, 2023. The participation of the cryptology community is essential for the success of this initiative.
Details here: https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/nistir/8214c/draft
Consider also joining the MPTC forum: https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/threshold-cryptography/email-list
07 February 2023
Sarani Bhattacharya, Dilip Kumar Shanmugasundaram Veeraraghavan, Shivam Bhasin, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay
Sabyasachi Dey, Hirenra Kumar Garai, Subhamoy Maitra
Shantanu Sharma, Yin Li, Sharad Mehrotra, Nisha Panwar, Dhrubajyoti Ghosh, Peeyush Gupta
Alexandra Ciobanu, Marina Stefiuc
Elisa Giurgea, Tudor Hutu, Emil Simion
Hannah Davis, Christopher Patton, MIke Rosulek, Phillipp Schoppmann
We propose a formal framework for the analysis of VDAFs and apply it to two candidate protocols. The first is based on the Prio system of Corrigan-Gibbs and Boneh (NSDI 2017). Prio is fairly mature and has been deployed in real-world applications. We prove that, with only minor changes, the current draft of the standardized version achieves our security goals. The second candidate is the recently proposed Poplar system from Boneh et al. (IEEE S\&P 2021). The deployability of Poplar is less certain. One difficulty is that the interactive step requires two rounds of broadcast messages, whereas Prio requires just one. This makes Poplar less suitable for many deployment scenarios. We show the round complexity can be improved, at the cost of higher bandwidth.