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Event co-organized by CROSSING PI professor Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

On November 4th, CROSSING PI professor Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi co-organized the Workshop on Sustainable Hardware Security (SUSHI) co-located with ICCAD'22 in San Diego, USA. Main goal of the workshop was to explore new ideas and research directions for tackling the challenges related to security-by-design for hardware, scalable assurance methodologies for hardware security and resilience, and security-aware electronic design automation that pave the way for establishing sustainable security for computing platforms. The invite-only workshop was supported by CROSSING.

Sucess for CROSSING researchers at TU Darmstadt

Award Ceremony on November 10, 2022

CROSSING-PIs professor Eric Bodden (University of Paderborn), and professor Lucas Davi (University Duisburg-Essen), along with their teams each were selected among the top ten finalists for the 9th German IT Security Award. The Horst Görtz Foundation presents the award during the Innovation Conference Cybersecurity 2022 at Ruhr-Uni Bochum.

CROSSING-PI Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi as expert advisor on distributed machine learning

Machine learning systems are increasingly being integrated in many processes of our society and economy. For example, machine learning algorithms take on important functions in driverless vehicles or digital healthcare. In these areas of application, AI systems must not only make reliable predictions, but also resist attacks and manipulation to ensure privacy of sometimes sensitive data as well as maintain trust in the technology.

Symposium will be held from August 9–11, 2023

CROSSING-PI professor Sebastian Faust receives ERC grant funding for cryptography project

The European Research Council (ERC) is providing around two million euros of funding for a project at the Technical University of Darmstadt that aims to improve decentralised blockchain technologies. The project “CRYPTOLAYER – Cryptography for Second Layer Blockchain Protocols” by CROSSING-PI professor Sebastian Faust is being supported with a renowned ERC Consolidator Grant for a term of five years. This will further strengthen TU Darmstadt's activities in cryptography and IT security research.

Sucess for CROSSING researcher from the Cryptoplexity group

Success for CROSSING P2 researcher Patrick Harasser

ERC Starting Grant for CROSSING-PI professor Lucas Davi

For his research in the field of software security, CROSSING-PI professor Dr. Lucas Davi at the University of Duisburg-Essen has been awarded one of the most endowed prizes for young scientists: an ERC Starting Grant. This provides the computer scientist with 1.5 million euros to develop a solution that holistically protects smart contracts from hacker attacks.

Sucess for CROSSING researchers from the ENCRYPTO group at TU Darmstadt

CROSSING-Forscher Dr. Patrick Struck in Graduate Center bidt aufgenommen

In einem neuen Programm für Digitalisierungsprojekte fördert der Freistaat Bayern sieben herausragende wissenschaftlicher Talente. Unter ihnen ist CROSSING-Forscher Dr. Patrick Struck, Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Datensicherheit und Kryptographie von CROSSING-PI Professorin Dr. Juliane Krämer an der Universität Regensburg.

Apply now as a mentor or mentee

Mentors and mentees from all departments can again apply to Big Sister until October 23, 2022. Big Sister is a mentoring program for international female students and students with a migration background.

Sucess for CROSSING researchers from the ENCRYPTO group

New video on the CROSSING YouTube channel

A new video presents the Java interface of the lattice-based blind signature scheme BlazePlus, and shows how to use this interface correctly with the help of the static analysis provided in CogniCrypt.

Success for CROSSING E4 researchers

International research team manipulates mobile devices with "Ghost Touch”

Touch screens on mobile devices can be attacked and manipulated via charging cables and power supply units. This is what researchers at the System Security Lab at TU Darmstadt have discovered together with a Chinese research team. Several smartphones and standalone touchscreen panels could be compromised in practical tests by simulated touches, the “ghost touches”. The results were presented at this year's “IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.”

CROSSING prizes to Barbara Jiabao Benedikt and Nora Khayata

On Thursday, 14 July 2022, the collaborative research centers CROSSING and MAKI, the LOEWE Center emergenCITY, and the Research Training Group Privacy & Trust presented the 2022 Female Student Travel Award to seven students during an online ceremony.

Focus on Usable Security and Privacy

CROSSING-PI Prof. Christian Reuter together with Alexander Benlian (both TU Darmstadt) and Luigi Lo Iacono (Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg) guest-edited a special issue of the journal Behaviour & Information Technology (BIT). The articles center around the topic of “Usable Security and Privacy with User-Centered Interventions and Transparency Mechanisms”.

Success for CROSSING researchers from the ENCRYPTO group

Success for CROSSING researchers from the ENCRYPTO group

Third funding phase includes new project area “Transfer”

The Collaborative Research Center CROSSING continues into its third funding period. The Grants Committee of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) agreed to extend the funding until the end of June 2026 to research and develop cryptography-based security solutions enabling trust in new and next generation computing environments.

CROSSING researchers develop anti-eavesdropping quantum network

While quantum computers offer many novel possibilities, they also pose a threat to internet security since these supercomputers make common encryption methods vulnerable. Based on the so-called quantum key distribution, CROSSING researchers at TU Darmstadt have developed a new, tap-proof communication network. Their results have now been presented in the renowned journal “PRX Quantum”.