Cybersecurity and Blockchains

The already widespread and accelerating digitalisation of all aspects of society and private life makes cybersecurity one of the key societal and technical challenges of the future. The systems’ underlying digitalisation are distributed and work on sensitive data, making cryptography and distributed systems two key technical disciplines in building the foundation for the future cybersecurity.

Objectives and synergies

The objectives are:

to enable MPC to become a practical tool for the future of processing sensitive data, and
to create a practical and provable secure foundation for the blockchain revolution.

There are strong synergies with “Verification & Software Engineering” concerning formal verification of security properties of MPC and blockchains. There are also synergies with the “Efficient algorithms and data structures” theme in analysing and engineering efficient cryptographic algorithms. Finally, there is synergy with “Human Computer Interaction” with respect to usable security.

Workstream Manager