A new hash function designed by a team of cryptographers from IAIK and DTU (Denmark) in 2008 is selected among 50+ proposals by academic and industrial research groups worldwide by NIST (www.nist.gov) to be a finalist in a competition for a future standard. See www.groestl.info.
For his remarkable performance during his academic career as a student,
Martin Feldhofer receives his PhD on 23.6.2009 from the Federal President of Austria, Dr. Heinz Fischer.
We are very happy to announce that Roderick Bloem is joining IAIK as a professor. With Reinhard Posch and Vincent Rijmen, Roderick will be the third professor at IAIK. Roderick’s research interests are in formal methods, particularly in reactive synthesis and fault repair. Roderick holds an MSc degree from Leiden University and a PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder
Reinhard Posch got elected chairman of the ENISA Management Board. He served as chairman of the ENISA Management Board until 2011.
Stefan Mangard, Thomas Popp and Elisabeth Oswald publish the first textbook on power analysis attacks.
The Federal Chancellery Austria and IAIK establish the E-Government Innovation Centre: http://www.egiz.gv.at/
Vincent Rijmen, co-designer of Rijndael, the Advanced Encryption Standard, joins IAIK as professor. Vincent lead the IAIK crypto activities until 2012. The professorship was donated by Stiftung SIC.
IAIK has donated the non-profit foundation SIC.
Reinhard Posch was appointed Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Austrian Federal Government.
The Secure Information Technology Center A-SIT has been established by its founding members Austrian Federal Ministry of Finance, Central Bank of Austria, and Graz University of Technology.
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