Cryptology and Data Security Research Group
The Cryptology and Data Security Research Group at the Institute of Computer Science of the University of Bern investigates security and privacy in a digital world.
Our research addresses cryptographic protocols, distributed consistency, consensus, and cloud-computing security, with applications to blockchains, distributed ledger technology, cryptocurrencies, and their economics.
Security and privacy are at stake in the information society, threatened by the enormous developments in networks, cloud, and mobile. Information technology has already revolutionized many aspects today’s life. Finding a balance between the practical convenience of being “always online”, current business practices, the changing demands of society, and the privacy and security concerns of individual people represents one of the great open questions of our time.
Cryptography and data security provide techniques to answer this question.
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Recent news (see all news)
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Best student paper award for David Lehnherr
The research paper Simplicial Belief has been accepted to the SIROCCO 2025 conference, the 32nd International Colloquium On Structural Information and Communication Complexity. SIROCCO is devoted to the study of the interplay... -
Seminar on blockchains and cryptocurrencies
In the fall semester 2024, a seminar in the Joint Master in Computer Science at the University of Bern was offered by the CRYPTO group and focused on blockchains and cryptocurrencies. The... -
New team members: Vivien Bammert and Annalisa Cimatti
In November 2024 Vivien Bammert has joined the CRYPTO group as a researcher and Ph.D. student. Her background is in algebra, coding theory, and code-based cryptography. She holds a M.Sc. in mathematics...