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06 December 2017
University of Oxford
Candidates should have a PhD in computer science or a mathematical science related subject, with a strong cryptography/security background and a proven publication record. Candidates with experience in distributed ledger/blockchain technology/financial cryptography (Bitcoin, Ethereum, cryptocurrencies and smart contracts) are encouraged to apply. Experience in privacy enhancing technologies is also desirable.
Closing date for applications: 10 January 2018
Contact: Ali El Kaafarani (ali.elkaafarani (at) maths.ox.ac.uk)
More information: http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/27252
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
The CSEE department of UMBC is seeking one or two postdocs/scientists to work on either 1) cloud computing, cloud storage, and cloud security, focusing on OpenStack re-design and implementation, and/or 2) ANY distributed systems design and implementation, e.g., blockchains, software-defined networking. The salary will be highly competitive. The title is negotiable.
Our group has a strong background in building permissioned blockchains (BChain, ByzID, CBFT, CPBFT) and building OpenStack systems (Nova, Neutron, Swift, Keystone).
Closing date for applications: 1 April 2018
Contact: Haibin Zhang: hbzhang (at) umbc.edu
More information: https://www.csee.umbc.edu/~hbzhang/
University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC)
The CSEE/IS department of UMBC is seeking 4 or more PhD to work on security, cryptography (e.g., ORAM), distributed systems, cloud computing (OpenStack), permissioned blockchains (BFT), food safety, SDN, or high-performance computing. The candidates are expected to have a strong programming ability and a strong desire to work with real systems. UMBC is in a nice location nearby many funding agencies and industrial companies.
Our group has a strong background in building permissioned blockchains (BChain, ByzID, CBFT, CPBFT) and building OpenStack systems (Nova, Neutron, Swift, Keystone).
UMBC is ranked 70 in CS/IS according to US News, and places 7th in a new ranking of \"Most Innovative\" national universities. At UMBC, we have 6 HPC, have access to D-Wave 2X quantum, and the NSF CHMPR center which has more than 30 industry and government partners (e.g., IBM, Northrop Grumman, Lexis Nexis, Dwave Systems Inc, Seagate, Collab Med Tech, GE, Morgan Stanley, NIST/ ISL, NSA/Lab for Phys. Sci., NSA/Central Sec. Services, NASA/GSFC, DHS) and a big and energetic cybersecurity center.
CSEE application deadline is 1/1/2018, and IS deadline is 2/1/18. Please let us know if you could not make the deadlines.
Closing date for applications: 1 February 2018
Contact:
Haibin Zhang: hbzhang (at) umbc.edu
Sisi Duan: sduan (at) umbc.edu
Department of computer science, Aarhus University
For more information, follow the link below and look for [Professor in Cryptography and Security 950389] in the table.
Closing date for applications: 5 January 2018
Contact: ivan (at) cs.au.dk
More information: http://scitech.au.com/om-science-and-technology/stillinger/videnskabelige-stillinger
Department of computer science, Aarhus University
For more information, follow link below and look for [Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or Associate Professor in Computer Science 934877] in the table.
Closing date for applications: 5 January 2018
Contact: Ivan Damgard, ivan (at) cs.au.dk
More information: http://scitech.au.com/om-science-and-technology/stillinger/videnskabelige-stillinger
University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
Deux postes de maître-assistant(e) à 80%
Entrée en fonction : 1er août 2018
Durée d’engagement: 4 ans
Exigences légales : être titulaire d’un doctorat, depuis au plus 10 ans. (Une expérience post-doctorale, bien que souhaitée, n’est pas exigée).
Cahier des charges :
- enseignement en Bachelor et Master (en moyenne 3 heures/semaine). Non French speakers will be given one year to reach a level sufficient to teach in French.
- encadrement de thèses de Master en Mathématiques
- recherche intégrée dans une des six équipes de recherches de l’Institut : voir les thématiques sur
https://www.unine.ch/math/home/recherche.html
- participation à la vie de l’Institut (organisation de séminaires…)
Le dossier de candidature comprendra : un CV avec liste de publications, et un projet de recherches limité à 5 pages. Les candidatures seront adressées à Prof. Alain Valette, directeur de l’Institut : alain.valette (at) unine.ch . Délai de candidature : 31 décembre 2017. Les candidat(e)s feront également envoyer deux lettres de références à la même adresse, avant le 15 janvier 2018.
Closing date for applications: 31 December 2017
Contact: Alain Valette (institute director) alain.valette (at) unine.ch
More information: https://www.unine.ch/math/
University of York, UK
The project aims to explore solutions with applications in various domains such as electronic voting systems (e.g. using direct recording electronic (DRE) machines) and end-to-end encrypted instant messaging protocols such as Signal (deployed widely, e.g. in WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Google Allo).
The project is expected to investigate solutions from both the security and usability perspectives, and therefore students with background in at least one, and interest in both areas of cryptography and human-computer interaction, are sought.
Scholarships are available for both UK/EU and non-UK/EU students (under two different schemes) and are decided through a competitive process within the department.
The project will be supervised jointly by Dr. Siamak F. Shahandashti and Prof. Helen Petrie, and will start in October 2018. Deadline for applications is 19 January 2018.
More information about the project, the scholarship schemes, and the application process is available through the link provided below. For any further enquiries please get in touch.
Closing date for applications: 19 January 2018
Contact: Dr. Siamak F. Shahandashti: siamak.shahandashti (at) york.ac.uk
More information: https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~siamak/supervision.html
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Only outstanding candidates which satisfy international mobility criteria will be considered (i.e. the applicant should not have resided or carried out their main activity in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the recruitment date).
The contract will be for 3 years with a gross salary of €34,800, plus other advantages.
The candidate should hold or be about to receive a master\'s degree by September 2018 in computer science, mathematics or a related area. Specialization in cryptography (demonstrated by a relevant MSc) will be positively evaluated.
Interested candidates should send a motivation letter, a short CV, the grade transcripts of undergraduate studies and master (if finished) and two names of references at cryptophdapplications (at) upf.edu.
Closing date for applications: 15 January 2018
Contact: Carla Ràfols, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
05 December 2017
Alan Szepieniec, Bart Preneel
Md. Al-Amin Khandaker, Yuki Nanjo, Loubna Ghammam, Sylvain Duquesne, Yasuyuki Nogami, Yuta Kodera
Osmanbey Uzunkol, Öznur Kalkar, İsa Sertkaya
Matthias Hamann, Matthias Krause, Willi Meier
In 2017, Hamann et al. showed that the initial hope of achieving full security against TMD-TO attacks by continuously using the secret key has failed. In particular, they demonstrated that there are generic distinguishing attacks against such ciphers with a complexity significantly smaller than that of exhaustive key search. However, by studying the assumptions underlying the applicability of these attacks, they came up with a new design idea for small-state stream ciphers, which is based on also continuously using the public IV as part of the state update. The authors conjectured that this design principle might allow to finally achieve full security against TMD-TO attacks.
In this note, we take their idea one step further. While Hamann et al. aimed for improving the security of small-state stream ciphers that continuously use the secret key against distinguishing, we explain here that also other stream cipher constructions can benefit from continuously using the IV. In particular, our approach allows for thwarting the well-known TMD-TO inner state recovery attacks of Babbage and Biryukov and Shamir without using the secret key more than once.
Koen de Boer, Léo Ducas, Stacey Jeffery, Ronald de Wolf
Yuanqi Shen, Amin Rezaei, Hai Zhou
David Berend, Bernhard Jungk, Shivam Bhasin
02 December 2017
Institute of Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. and a strong track record in cryptography, but there are no other formal requirements. The salary will depend on the experience and strength of the applicant. We expect research experience in cryptographic protocol design (including but not only zero knowledge, e-voting, privacy-preserving data mining and machine learning, blockchain, secure computation). Interests in various codes used in cryptographic contexts (e.g., non-malleable, locally decodable, locally recoverable, locally testable, batch, PIR, or just error-correction codes) are appreciated.
The group of Lipmaa currently hires 5 more researchers, and more people will be hired in the near future. The department also has a quantum cryptography group (led by Dominique Unruh).
For any inquiries or to apply for the position, submit a full research curriculum vitae (cv), names of two references, and a research statement to Prof Helger Lipmaa starting your email subject line with [Research fellow].
The call for expressions of interest will remain open end of January, but we encourage to contact us before January 15.
Closing date for applications: 26 January 2018
Contact: Helger Lipmaa, lead research fellow, helger.lipmaa (at) ut.ee
More information: https://crypto.cs.ut.ee/index.php/Main/2018researcher
Temasek Laboratories, National University of Singapore
Temasek Laboratories at National University of Singapore, Singapore is seeking highly motivated professionals in conducting research in the area of post-quantum cryptography.
Applicants are expected to have a PhD degree in Mathematics/Computer Science and a strong background in algebra and number theory in Bachelor degree or higher degree courses.
A preferred candidate is expected to be proficient in Magma or SAGE package, a team worker and able to conduct independent research.
Interested candidates kindly email their CV to Dr Chik How Tan tsltch (at) nus.edu.sg.
Closing date for applications: 28 February 2018
Contact: Dr Tan Chik How tsltch (at) nus.edu.sg
Oregon State University
Trustworthy Unmanned Aerial Systems
• New cryptographic frameworks to protect aerial drones
• Cryptographic policy enforcement for lawful interception via trusted execution environments and OS security mechanisms
Trustworthy Machine Learning (TML)
• Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
• Harnessing trusted-hardware and hardware-acceleration for TML
Breach-Resilient Cyber-Infrastructures:
• New searchable encryption and Oblivious RAM schemes
• Augmentation of privacy enhancing technologies with trusted execution environments
Secure and Reliable Internet of Things and Systems (IoTs)
• Post-Quantum public key infrastructure for IoT
• Light-weight cryptography for medical devices
The candidate should fulfill the following requirements:
• A BS degree in computer science, electrical engineering or mathematics with a high-GPA.
• Very good programming skills (e.g., C, C++), familiarity with OS/Systems.
• Good Academic Writing and Presentation Skills.
• MS degree in computer science, electrical engineering or mathematics is a big plus. Publications in security and privacy are highly desirable.
Please send (by e-mail) the following documents: (i) Transcripts, (ii) Curriculum vitae , (iii) Three reference letters, (iv) Research statement, (v) GRE and TOEFL/IELTS scores
Please see:
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~yavuza/
Closing date for applications: 15 January 2018
Contact: Dr. Attila A. Yavuz
attila.yavuz (at) oregonstate.edu
Temasek Laboratories @ Nanyang Technological University
Candidates are expected to have a strong backgroung in symmetric-key cryptography and/or machine learning, with good experience in programming with C/C++ and/or Python.
Review of applications starts immediately and will continue until positions are filled (ideally, the positions would start early 2018).
Closing date for applications: 31 March 2018
Contact: Thomas Peyrin - thomas.peyrin (at) ntu.edu.sg
Nanyang Technological University
Candidates are expected to have a strong backgroung in computer science and mathematics, with some experience in programming with C/C++ and/or Python. Experience with machine learning software libraries is a plus.
More information about graduate admissions at NTU can be found here: http://admissions.ntu.edu.sg/graduate/Pages/home.aspx
Closing date for applications: 31 March 2018
Contact: Thomas Peyrin - thomas.peyrin (at) ntu.edu.sg