Stefan Mangard follows Reinhard Posch

Several important updates for next semester

Two IAIK members receive their doctorate under the auspices of the Austrian President

We are excited that Maria Eichlseder will join IAIK as an assistant professor for Cryptography. Maria’s research interests include the design and cryptanalysis of symmetric cryptographic algorithms, such as hash functions and authenticated encryption algorithms and their underlying primitives. She co-designed Ascon, a lightweight authenticated cipher that is among the winners of the CAESAR competition. […]

Picnic and SPHINCS+, two post-quantum secure digital signature schemes designed by teams involving cryptographers from IAIK, have been selected as round 2 candidates of the NIST PQC project. More information on the two submissions can be found on the Picnic and SPHINCS+ websites.