We welcome Sujoy Sinha Roy as assistant professor in cryptographic engineering at IAIK. Sujoy is interested in the implementation aspects of cryptography. He is a co-designer of ‘Saber’ which is a finalist in NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Project. He received the PhD degree in 2017 with ‘Summa cum laude with congratulations from the examination committee’ from COSIC, KU Leuven, Belgium. His doctoral thesis was awarded the ‘IBM Innovation Award 2018’ that recognizes an outstanding doctoral thesis in informatics. Before joining TU Graz, he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham’s Security and Privacy group.

Together with their international colleagues Michael Schwarz (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) and David Oswald (University of Birmingham), computer scientists Moritz Lipp, Andreas Kogler, Catherine Easdon, Claudio Canella and Daniel Gruss from Graz University of Technology present PLATYPUS attacks: a method that allows power side-channel attacks even without physical access.

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After four intense months of qualification, the best participants competed in the finals of the annual Austrian Cyber Security Challenge on 21st October. The competition took place among school pupils, students, and general “hackers” in Austria.
The 16 challenges comprised several categories: Reverse Engineering, Exploitation, Machine Learning, Web Security, Programming, Cryptography, Forensics,  Networking, and Mathematics & Probabilities.
Five students of the TU Graz were among the best-ranked participants!

Interested in challenges like this? Get in touch with LosFuzzys (our student team for CTF challenges at TU Graz).

IAIK congratulates the finalists for their great efforts!

You want to pursue an academic career in information security? IAIK is expanding and we are looking forward to your application. We offer a vibrant research environment with many options for funding and collaborations. Here you can find the full job description and details on the application process for the following open position:

Tenure Track Professor of Security & Privacy

Application Deadline is 26 November 2020!

Michael Schwarz has been selected as the Winner of this year’s EuroSys Roger Needham PhD award. It is awarded annually to a PhD student “from a European university whose thesis is regarded to be an exceptional, innovative contribution to knowledge in the computer systems area”.
Congratulations!