[HGI-news-int] [HGI-news-int.] IEEE Best Paper Award is granted to HGI

[English Newsletter of the Horst Goertz Institute of IT Security in Bochum]

IEEE Best Paper Award is granted to HGI

 

The Paper “Don’t trust Satellite Phones: A Security Analysis of Two Satphone
Standards” of the Horst Görtz Institute of IT-Security (HGI) was honored
with the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy in San
Francisco. The interdisciplinary Team of the HGI reconstructed and broke the
encryption algorithms A5-GMR-1 and A5-GMR-2 for Satphones and uncovered
significant weaknesses. The Best Paper Award is given for the most relevant,
scientific paper.

 

Since February 2012 Benedikt Driessen, Thorsten Holz, Ralf Hund, Christof
Paar and Carsten Willems reached extensive media attention in Germany and
worldwide. Up to this time the unknown encryption algorithm A5-GMR1 and
A5-GMR-2 of the European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI)
considered to be safe. At the moment there are no alternative algorithms.
With their results the HGI-scientists demonstrated the demand for new
encryption algorithms.

 

With more than 400,000 members the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) is the world’s largest professional, technical association.
IEEE conferences call for an exceptionally high level of scientific quality
of papers. Every year several hundred papers are submitted to the IEEE
Symposium on Security & Privacy but only 10-15 per cent were accepted. The
Best Paper Award at this high competitive conference is a huge honor for the
HGI-scientists. 

 

Further information about the project and the paper:

http://gmr.crypto.rub.de

 

IEEE – http://www.ieee.org

 

Conference - http://ieee-security.org/

 

 

 

 

Britta Scherer

PR and Marketing

 

Beschreibung: hgi_cmyk_ohneText_neu

 

Horst Görtz Institute for IT-Security

Ruhr-University Bochum

 

 <http://www.hgi.rub.de/> www.hgi.rub.de

 

 

 

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