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CWI cryptanalyst Marc Stevens wins Van Marum Prize 2013

CWI cryptanalyst Marc Stevens won the Martinus van Marum Prize 2013.

CWI cryptographer Ronald Cramer elected KNAW Member

Cryptographer Ronald Cramer is elected as a Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).

Cryptographer Ronald Cramer appointed Fellow of IACR

Ronald Cramer from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and Leiden University has been appointed Fellow of IACR.

Future mobile payments safer with quantum cryptographic identification

Payment by mobile phone will be common in the near future. Security of the payment system will partly be based on secure identification, and it will be crucial that no secret-key material, …

Security guru Schneier: SHA-1 should be replaced due to CWI’s cryptanalysis

Security guru Bruce Schneier says that SHA-1 should be replaced. On his blog he writes that Intel researcher Jesse Walker estimated that it only costs 2.7 million dollar to break the cryptographic …

CWI cryptanalyst Stevens develops method for detection of Flame virus

CWI cryptanalyst discovers new cryptographic attack variant in Flame spy malware

Cryptanalyst Marc Stevens from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, known for breaking the https security in 2008 using a cryptanalytic attack on MD5, analyzed the recent Flame virus this …

Research on more efficient secure computation started

Researcher Ronald Cramer (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) was awarded a grant from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to improve the efficiency of ‘two-party secure computation’.