-HGI News- Dates for the next CASA Distinguished Lectures

Wed Oct 26 22:00:38 CEST 2022

Bochum, October 26, 2022

Dates for the next CASA Distinguished Lectures

The Cluster of Excellence „CASA – Cyber Security in the Age of Large-Scale
Adversaries“ invites you to the lectures. A registration is not necessary.

November 15, 2022, 11.00 am (UTC+1)

CASA Distinguished Lecture with Svetla Nikova (KU Leuven)

Topic: “Threshold Implementations - provably secure countermeasure against
physical attacks“

Location: Online via ->
<https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/62855788073?pwd=dDhRc1RrM3gvMWJDemVWdWVXe
VNNQT09#success> Zoom 

Abstract: With the increase in portable devices performing cryptographic
computations, physical attacks are becoming easy to execute. One of the most
common physical attacks is Side-Channel Analysis (SCA), extremely dangerous
due to its non-invasive nature. Threshold Implementations (TI) was proposed
as the first countermeasure to provide provable security in masked hardware
implementations. In this lecture we will first introduce the method and give
examples of HW implementations using Threshold Implementations. Then we will
present the most recent developments in the theory and practice of Threshold
Implementations and will demonstrate Tis providing various trade-offs and
achieving efficiency and security of HW implementations.

Bio: Dr. Svetla Nikova is a Research Manager in Cryptography and Computer
Security in the research group COSIC at ESAT, KU Leuven, Belgium and Adjunct
Professor in University of Bergen, Norway. Prior to that she was Assistant
Professor in University of Twente, NL. Her main research topics include:
Side-channel resistant implementations, Secret Sharing Schemes and
Multi-Party Computation, Boolean functions and symmetric cryptographic
primitives. She is a co-author of more than 100 research papers in
international journals and conferences. Dr. Nikova has been managing and
contributed to a large number of research projects (EU, Belgian and US).
Most recently she is Project Coordinator of the FWO SBO project SNIPPET and
a co-PI of a research project about Threshold Implementations funded by
NIST, US. She is a (co)-supervisor of 10 PhD students and has served as an
examiner in PhD committees. Svetla Nikova is an elected member of the Board
of Directors of the Trust in Digital Life. She is a member of the steering
committee of CHES, CARDIS and WAIFI, she has been serving in a number of PCs
and a member of the Board of Directors of IACR.

December 1st, 2022, 2.00 pm (UTC+1) 

CASA Distinguished Lecture with Adrian Perrig (ETH Zürich)

Topic: „Experiencing a new Internet Architecture“

Location: Online via ->
<https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom.us/j/62855788073?pwd=dDhRc1RrM3gvMWJDemVWdWVXe
VNNQT09#success> Zoom 

Abstract: Imagining a new Internet architecture enables us to explore new
networking concepts without the constraints imposed by the current
infrastructure. What are the benefits of a multi-path inter-domain routing
protocol that finds dozens of paths? What about a data plane without
inter-domain forwarding tables on border routers? What secure systems can we
build if a router can derive a symmetric key for any host on the Internet
within nanoseconds? In this presentation, we invite you to join us on our
12-year long expedition of creating the SCION next-generation secure
Internet architecture. SCION has already been deployed at several ISPs and
domains, and has been in production use since 2017. On our journey, we have
found that path-aware networking and multipath communication not only
provide security benefits, but also enable higher efficiency for
communication, increase network capacity, and can even provide opportunities
for reducing the carbon footprint of communication.

Bio: Adrian Perrig is a Professor at the Department of Computer Science at
ETH Zürich, Switzerland, where he leads the network security group. He is
also a Distinguished Fellow at CyLab, and an Adjunct Professor of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. From 2002 to 2012,
he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineering and
Public Policy, and Computer Science (courtesy) at Carnegie Mellon
University. From 2007 to 2012, he served as the technical director for
Carnegie Mellon's Cybersecurity Laboratory (CyLab). He earned his MS and PhD
degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, and spent three
years during his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley. He
received his BSc degree in Computer Engineering from EPFL. He is a recipient
of the ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award. Adrian is an ACM and IEEE
Fellow. Adrian's research revolves around building secure systems in
particular his group is working on the SCION secure Internet architecture.

Find more information on our CASA Distinguished Lectures here:
<https://casa.rub.de/en/news/distinguished-lectures>
https://casa.rub.de/en/news/distinguished-lectures. On our Youtube channel
you’ll find recordings of the past events.

With kind regards

Christina Scholten

RUHR-UNIVERSITÄT BOCHUM

Horst Görtz Institut for IT Security (HGI) / Cluster of Excellence CASA 

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