Christoph Striecks

I am a cryptographer with a professional focus on secure technologies demanded by real-world applications (such as end-to-end security, secure data access control, and authentication). Moreover, I am particularly interested in long-term security (e.g., forward security) and hybridization techniques towards scalable quantum-safe systems.

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:

Recent research visits:

Program committees:

  • CANS 2023, 2022
  • Security Standardisation Research Conference 2023
  • IMA International Conference on Cryptography and Coding 2019
  • ICISSP 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:

Current projects:

  • QCI-CAT (Digital European Program, 2022-2025)
  • PETRUS (Digital European Program, 2022-2025)
  • TeamAware (EU HORIZON 2020, 2021-2024)
  • PROFET (FWF, netidee SCIENCE, 2019-2023)
  • QKD4GOV (KIRAS, 2021-2023)

Completed projects:

Selected invited talks and activities:

  • Invited talks on end-to-end hybrid authenticated key exchanges (NXP, IDQ Europe, 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)
  • Diploma theses: Christian Matt (2011), Alexander Mai (2014)
  • Interns: Denis Jahic (Jul.-Sep. 2021), Alexander Zikulnig (Aug.-Sep. 2022)