COSIC (Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography group) provides a broad expertise in digital security and strives for innovative security solutions. COSIC is headed by Bart Preneel.
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Summer internships 2022
Are you interested in doing an internship at COSIC over the summer? We offer 4 to 12 weeks internship positions on different topics. We are releasing all internship proposals in the next few weeks: Stages bij COSIC Internships at COSIC
New: Master of Cybersecurity
To meet society’s high demand in trained cybersecurity professionals and specialists, KU Leuven is launching a new ‘Master of Cybersecurity’ programme. Join the Master of Cybersecurity programme and learn how to develop secure systems and protect organizations from cybercrime. Immerse yourself in the technical areas underpinning cybersecurity, including cryptographic techniques, software and hardware security, systems security and privacy. Gain insight ...
Dr Ignacio Fernández-Hernández has won the Colonel Thomas L. Thurlow Award
Dr Ignacio Fernández-Hernández has won the Colonel Thomas L. Thurlow Award “for pioneering contributions in the design and development of GNSS authentication and high accuracy services”. Cited from the press release: “Dr. Ignacio Fernández-Hernández is the primary architect responsible for Galileo authentication and high accuracy services, pioneering their development in GNSS. Dr. Fernández-Hernández works at the ...
Key Publications
- A. Ben-Efraim, K. Cong, E. Omri, E. Orsini, N. Smart, and E. Soria-Vazquez, “Large Scale, Actively Secure Computation from LPN and Free-XOR Garbled Circuits,” In Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12698, A. Canteaut, and F. Standaert (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 33-63, 2021.
, - W. Beullens, “Improved cryptanalysis of UOV and Rainbow,” In Advances in Cryptology – EUROCRYPT 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12698, A. Canteaut, and F. Standaert (eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 348-373, 2021. ,
- C. Baum, C. Delpech de Saint Guilhem, D. Kales, E. Orsini, P. Scholl, and G. Zaverucha, “Banquet: Short and Fast Signatures from AES,” In Public Key Cryptography, 24th International Workshop on Practice and Theory in Public Key Cryptosystems, PKC 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 39 pages, 2021.
- Alice Pellet-Mary and Damien Stehlé: “On the hardness of the NTRU problem“, IACR-ASIACRYPT-2021.
- V. Arribas, S. Nikova, and Z. Zhang, “LLTI: Low-Latency Threshold Implementations,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security(16), pp. 5108-5123, 2021.
- T. Beyne, “A Geometric Approach to Linear Cryptanalysis,” In Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 30 pages, 2021.
- M. Zhang, E. Marin, D. Oswald, and D. Singelée, “FuzzyKey: Comparing Fuzzy Cryptographic Primitives on Resource-Constrained Devices,” In Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications – CARDIS 2021, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 20 pages, 2021.
- J. Winderickx, A. Braeken, D. Singelée, and N. Mentens, “In-depth energy analysis of security algorithms and protocols for the Internet of Things,” Journal of Cryptographic Engineering(2021), 13 pages, 2021.
- T. Yoshizawa, D. Singelée, and B. Preneel, “A New Privacy Enhancing Beacon Scheme in V2X Communication,” In Data Privacy Management, Autonomous Spontaneous Security, and Security Assurance, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, 12 pages, 2021. ,
- A. Adavoudi Jolfaei, S. Aghili, and D. Singelée, “A Survey on Blockchain-based IoMT Systems: Towards Scalability,” IEEE Access TBD(TBD), 28 pages, 2021. ,
- A. Abidin, M. El Soussi, J. Romme, P. Boer, D. Singelée, and C. Bachmann, “Secure, Accurate, and Practical Narrow-Band Ranging System,” Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2021(2), 30 pages, 2021. ,
- R. Galvez, V. Moonsamy, and C. Diaz, “Less is More: A privacy-respecting Android malware classifier using Federated Learning,” Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2021(4), 20 pages, 2021. ,
- R. Amos, G. Acar, E. Lucherini, M. Kshirsagar, A. Narayanan, and J. Mayer, “Privacy Policies over Time: Curation and Analysis of a Million-Document Dataset,” In Proceedings if the The Web (WWW) Conference, ACM, 22 pages, 2021.
- Y. Dimova, G. Acar, L. Olejnik, W. Joosen, and T. Van Goethem, “The CNAME of the Game: Large-scale Analysis of DNS-based Tracking Evasion,” Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies 2021(3), 19 pages, 2021.
- T. Van hamme, E. Argones Rua, W. Joosen, and D. Preuveneers, “On the Security of Biometrics and Fuzzy Commitment Cryptosystems: a Study on Gait Authentication,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (), pp. 1-13, 2021.