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06 December 2022
Linus Backlund, Kalle Ngo, Joel Gärtner, Elena Dubrova
Cas Cremers, Charlie Jacomme, Eyal Ronen
Ron Steinfeld, Amin Sakzad, Muhammed F. Esgin, Veronika Kuchta
NUS-Singapore and the University of Sheffield, UK
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Dr Prosanta Gope (p.gope@sheffield.ac.uk)
Technical University of Darmstadt / Goethe University of Frankfurt
- Cryptography for Blockchains and Cryptocurrencies
- Decentralized Finance
- Economics and Computation
- Design and Analysis of Distributed Algorithms
Your application should contain a CV, record of grades, a short motivation letter and at least one contact for a reference letter. Since there are multiple positions available please indicate in your application if your main interest lies in cryptography or game theory.
The project is part of the ATHENE national center for IT security and privacy, which is one of Europe’s largest centers for research in IT security. We offer an excellent working environment in the heart of the Frankfurt Metropolitan Area, which is internationally well-known for its high quality of life. The review of applications starts immediately until the positions are filled.
Closing date for applications:
Contact:
Sebastian Faust (office.cac@cysec.de)
Martin Hoefer (mhoefer@em.uni-frankfurt.de)
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Department of Mathematics (0123) 460 McBryde Hall, Virginia Tech 225 Stanger Street Blacksburg, VA 24061-1026
More information: https://careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us/job/522806/postdoctoral-associate#.Y430yuaQ8lg.link
Simula UiB, Bergen, Norway
Simula UiB (https://simula-uib.com) is a research centre in Cryptography and Information Theory located in Bergen, Norway. We are currently looking for an outstanding candidate for a PhD researcher position in the area of symmetric-key cryptography. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Prof Carlos Cid, towards a PhD degree from the University of Bergen. The research topic will be one of the following:
- Design and analysis of dedicated symmetric-key ciphers for privacy-preserving mechanisms (e.g. MPC, FHE, ZKP schemes); or,
- Quantum cryptanalysis of symmetric-key primitives.
We are looking for a candidate who has recently completed, or is about to complete, a master’s degree in cryptography, mathematics, or a closely related field. This is a 4-year position, with the student dedicating 25% of their time to compulsory work related to their research area.
Interested candidates should apply via the link https://www.simula.no/about/job/phd-student-symmetric-key-cryptography . The deadline for application is Sunday 5 February 2023. However applications will be screened continuously, and we may conclude recruitment as soon as we find the right candidate. The starting date is negotiable.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: For additional enquiries, please contact Carlos Cid (carlos@simula.no)
More information: https://www.simula.no/about/job/phd-student-symmetric-key-cryptography
05 December 2022
Efficient Zero-Knowledge Arguments for Some Matrix Relations over Ring and Non-malleable Enhancement
Yuan Tian
Alberto Ibarrondo, Hervé Chabanne, Melek Önen
Wei Dai, Tatsuaki Okamoto, Go Yamamoto
Ian Black, Emma McFall, Juliet Whidden, Bryant Xie, Ryann Cartor
Mastooreh Salajegheh, Shashank Agrawal, Maliheh Shirvanian, Mihai Christodorescu, Payman Mohassel
Chris Monico
Sourav Das, Zhuolun Xiang, Ling Ren
In this paper, we present Tauron, a distributed protocol to generate $q$-SDH parameters in an asynchronous network. In a network of $n$ parties, Tauron tolerates up to one-third of malicious parties. Each party incurs a communication cost of $O(q + n^2\log q)$ and the protocol finishes in $O(\log q + \log n)$ expected rounds. We provide a rigorous security analysis of our protocol. We implement Tauron and evaluate it with up to 128 geographically distributed parties. Our evaluation illustrates that Tauron is highly scalable and results in a 2-6$\times$ better runtime and 4-13$\times$ better per-party bandwidth usage.
Kyoto, Japan, 19 June - 22 June 2023
Submission deadline: 15 March 2023
Notification: 19 April 2023
Melbourne, Australia, 10 July 2023
Submission deadline: 30 January 2023
Notification: 15 March 2023
Mysten Labs
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Andrew St.Germain
More information: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mystenlabs/68644b6d-879b-4573-9310-29b2aba114f1
Mysten Labs
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Andrew St.Germain
More information: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mystenlabs/03e125fe-8f64-4da6-8b2d-267eb4398775
Aztec
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Travis
More information: https://boards.eu.greenhouse.io/aztec/jobs/4098527101
Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
The Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO) @Department of Computer Science @Technical University of Darmstadt offers a full position for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Cryptography & Privacy Engineering, available immediately and for initially until 31.1.2025.
Our mission is to demonstrate that privacy can be efficiently protected in real-world applications via cryptographic protocols.TU Darmstadt is a top research university for IT security, cryptography and computer science in Europe. The position is based in the City of Science Darmstadt, which is very international, livable and well-connected in the Rhine-Main area around Frankfurt. Knowledge of German is helpful, but not required, and TU Darmstadt offers a Welcome Center and language courses.
Job descriptionAs postdoc @ENCRYPTO, you conduct research, build prototype implementations, and publish and present the results at top venues. You are involved in project management, teaching, co-advise PhD students and supervise thesis students & student research assistants. The position is co-funded by the ERC Starting Grant “Privacy-preserving Services on the Internet” (PSOTI), where we build privacy-preserving services on the Internet, which includes designing protocols for privately processing data among untrusted service providers using secure multi-party computation and implementing a scalable framework.
Your profile- Completed PhD degree (or equivalent) at a top university in IT security, computer science, applied mathematics, electrical engineering, or a similar area
- Publications at top venues (CORE rank A*/A) for IT security/applied cryptography (e.g., EUROCRYPT, S&P, CCS, NDSS, USENIX SEC), ideally on cryptographic protocols and secure computation
- Experience in software development, project management and supervising students
- Self-motivated, reliable, creative, can work in a team, and want to do excellent research on challenging scientific problems with practical relevance
- The working language at ENCRYPTO is English, so you must be able to discuss/write/present scientific results in English.
Closing date for applications:
Contact: Thomas Schneider (application@encrypto.cs.tu-darmstadt.de)
More information: https://encrypto.de/POSTDOC