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Leader of the group Cryptology: Ronald Cramer.

Our research group is concerned with digital security, an area of increasingly pressing concern for industry, government and society at large. We investigate how cryptologic methods can contribute to solving security issues, for example through encryption, digital signatures and secure computation. Furthermore, we seek to establish the reliability of current cryptologic methods, how they can be improved, and what better alternatives there might be.
Quantum safety, meaning security in a possible future age of quantum computing, is a particular focus of our research.
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News

Cécile Pierrot wins Cercle K2 Cybersecurity Trophy 2017

Cécile Pierrot wins Cercle K2 Cybersecurity Trophy 2017

Cécile Pierrot from the Cryptology research group at CWI won the first Cybersecurity Trophy granted by Cercle K2. This French think tank awards prizes in 22 topics every two years. It aims at stimulating interdisciplinarity and promoting young researchers. The Cybersecurity Trophy 2017 rewarded Pierrot’s PhD thesis, which she defended at UPMC in Paris on 25 November 2016. The jury praised her for both theoretical and practical impacts of her results.

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ERC Advanced Grant for CWI cryptographer Ronald Cramer

ERC Advanced Grant for CWI cryptographer Ronald Cramer

CWI cryptographer Ronald Cramer has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million euro for his proposal 'Algebraic Methods for Stronger Crypto'. He leads the Cryptology Research group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and is a full professor at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University. The European Research Council awards these most prestigious personal grants to outstanding, well-established scientists with novel ideas towards high-risk, groundbreaking research that impacts both science and society at large.

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CWI and Google announce first collision for Industry Security Standard SHA-1

CWI and Google announce first collision for Industry Security Standard SHA-1

'Industry deprecation proved to be too slow' Today, Thursday 23 February 2017, researchers at the Dutch research institute CWI and Google jointly announce that they have broken the SHA-1 internet security standard in practice. This industry standard is used for digital signatures and file integrity verification, which secure credit card transactions, electronic documents, GIT open-source software repositories and software distribution.

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Events

IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC)

  • 2017-03-28T07:00:00+02:00
  • 2017-03-31T15:00:00+02:00
March 28 Tuesday

Start: 2017-03-28 07:00:00+02:00 End: 2017-03-31 15:00:00+02:00

De Balie, Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10, 1077 RR Amsterdam

The IACR International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (PKC) is the main annual conference focusing on all aspects of public-key cryptography, attracting cutting-edge results from world-renowned researchers in the area.

You'll find more information and registration on our website.

EU COST Crypto Action meeting

  • 2017-03-27T00:00:00+02:00
  • 2017-03-28T23:59:59+02:00
March 27 Monday

Start: 2017-03-27 00:00:00+02:00 End: 2017-03-28 23:59:59+02:00

Amsterdam Science Park congress center: Turing room

The CryptoAction Symposium is a workshop of the COST Action IC1306 “Cryptography for Secure Digital Interaction”, and its focus is on cryptography. This international meeting brings together researchers from various countries in Europe.

RISC: Arjen Lenstra & LACAL on Cryptologic Algorithms

  • 2015-02-06T09:30:00+01:00
  • 2015-02-06T15:30:00+01:00
February 6 Friday

Start: 2015-02-06 09:30:00+01:00 End: 2015-02-06 15:30:00+01:00

Euler room, CWI Amsterdam

We cordially invite you to a special RISC seminar on the occasion of the visit of

Prof. Arjen Lenstra

and (former-) members of his research group LACAL at EPFL in Switzerland:

Dr. Anja Becker, Dr. Joppe Bos (NXP), Alina Dudeanu, Dr. Rob Granger, Benjamin Wesolowski.

The theme of this LACAL@RISC seminar is Computational Number Theory and Cryptography. Please visit our webpage for more information and abstracts.  Everybody who is interested is welcome to attend this meeting, free of costs.

 

Ronald Cramer

Members of Cryptology

Publications

Software

Current Projects

  • Applications of Arithmetic Secret Sharing Schemes in Two-Party Cryptography
  • Counter-cryptanalysis of Cryptologic Primitives
  • Cryptanalysis of Lattice-based Cryptography
  • Cryptanalysis of Widely-used Hash Function Standards and Beyond
  • Lattice-based cryptography
  • QCRYPT
    Quantum Cryptography | Beyond Quantum Key Distribution

Partners

  • Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
  • NXP Semiconductor Belgium N.V
  • Technische Universiteit Eindhoven