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CROSSING Researchers at ACNS 2025

Spokesperson Marc Fischlin served as co-program chair

2025/07/02 by

From June 23 to 26, 2025, the 23rd International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) brought together leading experts in cryptography, cybersecurity, and privacy in Munich. Among the contributors were researchers from the Collaborative Research Center CROSSING.

PC Co-Chairs Prof. Marc Fischlin (TU Darmstadt) and Veelasha Moonsamy (Ruhr-University Bochum), Jianying Zhou (Singapore UTD), and General Chairs Johannes Kinder (LMU Munich) and Stefan Katzenbeisser (University of Passau) at the conference (l.t.r.).

Marc Fischlin , professor at the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt and spokesperson of CROSSING, served as Co-Program Chair of ACNS 2025 alongside Veelasha Moonsamy (Ruhr University Bochum). Together, they were responsible for shaping the scientific program of the international conference, held at the Munich Urban Co-Lab and hosted by Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Bavarian research initiative ForDaySec.

CROSSING was also represented in the conference program: Jens-Rene Giesen, a doctoral student at the University of Duisburg-Essen, his supervisor Prof. Lucas Davi, and former CROSSING member Michael Rodler (now Amazon Web Services) are co-authors of the accepted paper HCC: A Language-Independent Hardening Contract Compiler for Smart Contracts. This work has been partially funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) via CROSSING, project T1 .

ACNS is an annual international forum for advances in applied cryptography and cybersecurity. It combines academic research with developments from industry, focusing on secure systems, protocols, and applications. The proceedings of ACNS 2025 are published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The next conference will take place from June 22-25, 2026 in New York, USA.