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Researchers urge: industry standard SHA-1 should be retracted sooner

An international team of cryptanalysts urges the industry today that SHA-1 internet security standard should be retracted sooner, since the cost of breaking it is significantly lower than previously thought.

Researchers urge: industry standard SHA-1 should be retracted sooner

Vision on Quantum-Safe Encryption in WIRED and Quanta magazine

Research results of CWI cryptologists Ronald Cramer and Léo Ducas on quantum-safe encryption were discussed in an article on WIRED on 19 September 2015.

Vision on Quantum-Safe Encryption in WIRED and Quanta magazine

Marc Stevens keynote at Security in Times of Surveillance event

Marc Stevens (CWI) was one of the keynote speakers at the Eindhoven Institute for the Protection of Systems and Information (Ei/PSI) event on Security in Times of Surveillance on Friday 8 May …

Marc Stevens keynote at Security in Times of Surveillance event

10-year anniversary for RISC crypto meetings

On 18 and 19 September the 10-year anniversary of the RISC seminar series on cryptography was celebrated with a two-day RISC Seminar on Theory of Cryptography at the Trippenhuis, home of the …

10-year anniversary for RISC crypto meetings

Five Veni grants for CWI researchers

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni grants to Jop Briët, Jiyin He, Wouter Koolen, Marc Stevens and Xiaodong Zhuge of CWI.

Five Veni grants for CWI researchers

Ronald Cramer inaugurated as KNAW Member

On 30 September 2013 Ronald Cramer, head of the Cryptology group of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and a professor of cryptology at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden Universi

Ronald Cramer inaugurated as KNAW Member

Two CWI cryptographers honoured at CRYPTO 2013

During CRYPTO – one of the two leading crypto conferences in the world – two researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam were honoured: Ronald Cramer and Marc Stevens. The …

Two CWI cryptographers honoured at CRYPTO 2013

CWI releases software for detection of forged digital signatures

Cryptanalyst Marc Stevens from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam published on 15 August open source software that can detect and block forged digital signatures: CWI's hash collision detection library.

CWI releases software for detection of forged digital signatures