Christoph Striecks
I am a cryptographer with a professional focus on secure technologies (mainly, key exchange and encryption, secure data access control, and authentication). Moreover, I have particularly worked on hybridization techniques for defense-in-depth approaches in large quantum-safe networks and on long-term security (e.g., see talks on hybrid cryptography and blog post on forward secrecy).
Before joining the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology – Austria’s largest Research and Technology Organization (RTO) – in 2016, I held a post-doc position at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany.
In 2015, I received my PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) in cryptography from KIT under the supervision of Prof. Dennis Hofheinz (now at ETH Zurich) on scalable advanced cryptographic building blocks. Teaching activities included Algorithms I (lab, ST 2015) and IT security (lab, ST 2013), encompassed by several seminars and labs.
In 2010, I received my Diploma in computer science from the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany with a major in cryptography and software engineering. From March to September 2008, I worked as a software-development intern for Siemens USA in Princeton, New Jersey.
News and activities:
- Oct. 2024: Presentation of an invited webinar (with Ludovic Perret) on hybrid key exchanges for the European Commission under the umbrella of the QSNP project. The slides of the technical part are available here.
- Oct. 2024: Happy to serve as a program committee member in "Track 3: Security in the Quantum Age" of the International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC 2025).
- Sep. 2024: Presentation of a series of webinars on authentication in large quantum-safe networks under the umbrella of the PETRUS project.
- Jul. 2024: Happy to serve as a program committee member of the Security Standardisation Research Conference 2024.
- May 2024: Attended the SKECH Workshop 2024.
- Jan. 2024: Talk on source authentication in quantum-safe networks at QCI Days Vienna 2024.
- Oct. 2023: An extended version of our PKC'15 paper was accepted to the Journal of Cryptology.
- Sep. 2023: Accepted paper on forward-secure 0-RTT key exchange at The ACM Cloud Computing Security Workshop 2023.
- Aug. 2023: Accepted papers on forward security in updatable encryption at TCC 2023 and on functional encryption with updatable ciphertexts in the Journal of Cryptology.
- Aug. 2023: (Virtual) presentation at PQCrypto 2023 on hybrid authenticated key exchange.
- Aug. 2023: I will serve as a program committee member of ICISSP 2024 and GI Sicherheit 2024.
- Jun. 2023: Accepted paper on hybrid authenticated key exchange at PQCrypto 2023.
- May 2023: I will serve as a program committee member of CANS 2023.
- Apr. 2023: I attended EUROCRYPT 2023 in Lyon.
- Jan. 2023: Accepted paper on strongly secure messaging at EUROCRYPT 2023.
- Dez. 2022: From 7 to 9 December, I visited Dominique Schröder's group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and gave a presentation on Forward Security.
- Oct. 2022: I will serve as a program committee member of the Security Standardisation Research Conference 2023.
- Sep. 2022: From 19 to 23 September, I visited Dennis Hofheinz' group at ETH Zurich and held a talk on Puncturable Encryption.
- Apr. 2022: I attended Real World Crypto Symposium 2022 in Amsterdam and gave a contributed talk on Puncturable Encryption for forward security.
- Bloom Filter Encryption and Applications to Efficient Forward-Secret 0-RTT Key ExchangeAdvances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2018 - 37th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Tel Aviv, Israel, April 29 - May 3, 2018 Proceedings, Part III
Recent research visits:
- Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (Prof. Dominique Schröder, now at TU Vienna, 12/2022)
- ETH Zurich (Prof. Dennis Hofheinz, 09/2022)
- Royal Holloway, University of London (Prof. Martin R. Albrecht, now at King's College London and SandboxAQ, 10/2018)
- Paderborn University (Prof. Tibor Jager, now at Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 03/2017)
Program committees:
- QCNC 2025, 2024
- CANS 2024, 2023, 2022
- Security Standardisation Research Conference 2024, 2023
- IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding 2019
- ICISSP 2025, 2024
- GI SICHERHEIT 2024, 2022 & 2020
- ARES Workshops 2023, 2022 & 2020
- IFIP Summer School on Privacy and Identity Management 2019 & 2018
Selected external reviewing activities:
- CRYPTO 2024, 2022, 2019
- EUROCRYPT 2023, 2022
- ASIACRYPT 2022, 2021, 2016, 2015
- ACM CCS 2023, 2022, 2020
- USENIX Security 2021
- IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2022
- ICALP 2022
- PKC 2023, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016
- IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 2022
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2022, 2021
- Designs, Codes and Cryptography 2022
Current projects:
- QCI-CAT (Digital European Program, 2022-2025)
- PETRUS (Digital European Program, 2022-2025)
- EDOCC (European Defence Fund, 2022-2025)
- QSNP (HORIZON-RIA 2023-2026)
Completed projects:
- TeamAware (EU HORIZON 2020, 2021-2024)
- QKD4GOV (KIRAS, 2021-2023)
- PROFET (FWF, netidee SCIENCE, 2019-2023)
- COMP4DRONES (EU HORIZON 2020, ECSEL, 2019-2023)
- SECREDAS (EU HORIZON 2020, ECSEL, 2018-2021)
- IoT4CPS (FFG and BMK, ICT of the Future, 2017-2020)
- PRISMACLOUD (EU HORIZON 2020, 2015-2018)
- CREDENTIAL (EU HORIZON 2020, 2015-2018)
Selected invited talks and activities:
- Invited webinar on Quantum-Secure Hybrid Key Exchanges (European Commission, 2024)
- Invited talk on Hybrid Authenticated Key Exchanges (NXP, 2023)
- Invited talk on Forward Security (ETH Zurich, 2022)
- Invited talk on Forward Security (FAU Nürnberg-Erlangen, 2022)
- Invited lecture on Redactable Blockchains (with Daniel Slamanig, TU Vienna, 2021)
- Invited talk on Attribute-Based Encryption for Strong Access Control (ETSI Security Week, 2020)
- Invited lectures on Advanced Public-Key Encryption (TU Vienna, 2020 & 2019)
- Invited talk on Security, Safety, and Privacy-by-Design (Austrian Standards, 2020, press coverage in futurezone and Austrian Standards)
- Invited talk on Attribute-Based Encryption for strong access control (Graz Security Days for Industry, 2019)
- Invited talk on Forward Security (Royal Holloway, University of London, 2018)
- Involvement in ETSI STF 529 on standardizing Attribute-Based Encryption (press release from ETSI)
Selected teaching & supervision:
- Teaching: Redactable Blockchains (invited lecture, WT 2021 at TU Vienna), Advanced Public-Key Encryption (invited lecture, WT 2020 at TU Vienna), Advanced Public-Key Encryption (invited lecture, WT 2019 at TU Vienna), Algorithms I (TA, ST 2015 at KIT), IT security (TA, ST 2013 at KIT)
- PhD visitor: Jaime S. Buruaga (Technical University of Madrid, Jul.-Oct. 2024)
- Interns: Augustine Bugler (University of Vienna, Jul.-Sep. 2024), Kevin Verhaeghe (ETH Zurich, Jul.-Sep. 2024), Alexander Zikulnig (TU Vienna, Aug.-Sep. 2022), Denis Jahic (TU Vienna, Jul.-Sep. 2021)
- Diploma theses: Christian Matt (KIT, 2011), Alexander Mai (KIT, 2014)