#COSIC

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-07

This week at , we’ve got two exciting seminars lined up:
"Boolean Functional Synthesis & Cryptography" by Mate Soos (Ethereum Foundation) and "Software Faults Countermeasures" by Aymeric Lelièvre (École Polytechnique):
esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/?post_t

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-03

📹Good news, the COSIC seminar "CovFUZZ: Coverage-based fuzzer for 4G&5G protocols" by Ilja Siros is now online: youtube.com/watch?v=74LlGscQ5WM

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-02

We are very proud to share that Prof. Ingrid Verbauwhede (COSIC, KU Leuven) has been awarded the 2025 FWO Excellence Prize in Applied Sciences for her groundbreaking research in semiconductor security.
Selected by an international jury, these prizes are often called the “Flemish Nobel Prizes.” 🏆

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-01

Another team member of our division in Diepenbeek we would like to introduce to you is Yari Nowicki. He has been working in Kris Myny's team since January 2023.
"I chose COSIC because my research project enables me to explore the potential of an emerging hybrid technology that combines multiple process materials. This approach holds significant promise for next-generation secure wearable and IoT devices."

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-01

Not exactly a newcomer - Djihad Nacereddine Bouakaz has been part of Kris Myny's team since January 2024 - but since he didn’t get a proper introduction back then, we’re happy to officially welcome him now!
Djihad is working on flexible electronics and brings valuable expertise to the team.

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-01

Alexis Cao, a visiting intern from Johns Hopkins University, has joined COSIC to work on enhancing the security and privacy of mixnets this summer. Welcome!

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-01

Meet Robbe Martens, he just finished his Master of Electronics and ICT Engineering Technology at KU Leuven, and is now doing a summer internship at COSIC in Ingrid Verbauwhede's team.

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-01

Our postdoc Karim Baghery just published a great blog post: "ACNS 2025: Bridging Privacy and Regulation in Cryptocurrencies" 🪙🔐
Don’t miss his insights on the AQQUA paper presented at ACNS.
👉 Read it here: esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/ac

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-01

Mahdi Rahimi (COSIC, KU Leuven) presented "PARSAN-Mix: Packet-Aware Routing and Shuffling with Additional Noise for Latency Optimization in Mix Networks" at in Munich:
acns2025.fordaysec.de/accepted

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-01

A few pictures from the FHE Hardware Acceleration Summit on June 26 at Stanford University.

coedcon.github.io/

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-07-01

New PhD position at COSIC!
Topic: Hardware Implementations Secured Against Physical Attacks

🔗 esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/vacanci

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-06-20

Lorenzo Rovida (University of Milano-Bicocca) is visiting COSIC and gave a seminar on "Lightweight Sorting in Approximate Homomorphic Encryption". Missed it? Good news, it's now online!
🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=ea066flbddU

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-06-12

We’re hiring a PhD student!
Join us at COSIC KU Leuven to work on secure hardware implementations protected against physical attacks.
Details
👉 esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/vacanci

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-06-12

Excited to announce that our paper with TU Wien on the first plaintext recovery attack against XCB-AES (IEEE 1619.2) has been accepted at !
👉 ia.cr/2024/1554

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-06-12

A few pictures of our researcher Wouter Legiest introducing to the crowd at Nerdland festival last weekend.
In case you missed his talk, you can watch it on our YouTube channel (in Dutch): youtube.com/watch?v=7yscUVZGqkM

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-06-11

Fitting all (well, most) of COSIC into one picture? Not easy, but we did it!
Curious about our research in and ?
Check out our work: esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-06-10

🎥 Missed Nerdland Festival last weekend? You're in luck! Wouter Legiest gave his focus talk “Cryptografie: De onzichtbare beschermer” [Dutch only] again — just for you. 📺 Watch it now: youtube.com/watch?v=7yscUVZGqkM

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-06-03

🚨 Major privacy breach uncovered: researchers contributed to a study revealing how & covertly de-anonymize users via abuse of localhost communication.
Even private mode isn’t safe.
📖 Read more: arstechnica.com/security/2025/

CosicBeCosicBe
2025-05-14

The COSIC Seminar on "ePPTM: Enhanced Privacy-Preserving Trajectory Matching on Autonomous Vehicles" by Dominik Roy George (Eindhoven University of Technology) is now online: youtube.com/watch?v=krVu8Jdt2i0

CosicBeCosicBe
2024-12-11

📹The COSIC seminar "MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant… and a few hardware backdoors" by Philippe Teuwen (Quarkslab) is now online: youtube.com/watch?v=uw8N4IhQc0s

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