Full name: Christian Schaffner
Formal name: Dr. C. Schaffner
Function: Scientific Staff Member, employed by UvA

Email: C.Schaffner@cwi.nl
Telephone +31(0)20 592 4236
Room:  L238
Homepage:  http://homepages.cwi.nl/~schaffne
Research groups:
(PNA6) Algorithms and Complexity

Research

My research interests are Quantum Cryptography, Cryptographic Protocols, and (Quantum) Information Theory.

Career

2012 -	Onderzoeker PNA6 - Algorithms and Complexity
2011 - 2012	WPO PNA6 - Algorithms and Complexity
2010 - 2011	Scientific staff member PNA6 - Algorithms and Complexity
2007 - 2009	Scientific staff member INS4 - Quantum Computing and Advanced Systems Research

Selected Awards and Honours

2010	Veni Innovational Research Grant NWO

Selected Academic Activities

2011	Member program committee International Conference on Information Theoretic Security - [ICITS]
2010	Organizer Caltech, Pasadena - Workshop on Cryptography from Storage Imperfections

Selected Publications

H. Buhrman, N. Chandran, S. Fehr, R. Gelles, V. Goyal, R. Ostrovsky, C. Schaffner. Position-Based Quantum Cryptography: Impossibility and Constructions. Workshop on Quantum Information Processing, Singapore, 2011.

R. König, R. Renner, C. Schaffner. The operational meaning of min- and max-entropy. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory 55, 4337–4347, 2009.

S.D.C. Wehner, C. Schaffner, B. Terhal. Practical Cryptography from Noisy Storage. Physical Review Letters 100, 2008.

I.B. Damgard, S. Fehr, L. Salvail, C. Schaffner. Secure Identification and QKD in the Bounded-Quantum-Storage Model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4622, Santa Barbara, CA, USA , 342–359, 2007.

I.B. Damgard, S. Fehr, R. Renner, L. Salvail, C. Schaffner. A Tight High-Order Entropic Quantum Uncertainty Relation With Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4622, Santa Barbara, CA, USA , 360–378, 2007.

I.B. Damgard, S. Fehr, L. Salvail, C. Schaffner. Cryptography in the Bounded Quantum-Storage Model. Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2005), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 449–458, 2005.

All publications (link to repository)