Research

Here you can find our publications, that are sorted chronologically. Use the links representing the years or the ones below the list to navigate to those publications you are interested in.

The Network Security Group focuses on secure computer network infrastructures, in particular in the field of traffic verification and intrusion detection. The group investigates machine-learning techniques for building models that can detect traffic anomalies, but also unseen attacks.

EGIZ is a joint effort of the Office of the Austrian Chancellery and IAIK. EGIZ provides the scientific background to the highly successful e-Government development in Austria. In the EU-wide ranking of e-Government implementations, Austria has been ranked number 1 in the years 2006 and 2007.

The Design and Verification Group started work on 1 February 2008. Lead by Roderick Bloem, they study the use of formal methods for the design of correct systems. This includes verification, automatic fault localization and repair, and correct-by-construction design

Our group investigates all types of implementation attacks (side-channel analysis, fault analysis, probing attacks, etc.), which pose a serious threat to all types of crypto devices (smart cards, RFID tags, embedded systems, etc.). Based on the experiences gained in the attacks, we develop efficient countermeasures for hardware and software implementations of crypto devices.

This group focuses on secure and performance optimized software implementations of cryptographic algorithms and protocols. The research area covers several aspects of data and communication security from basic cryptographic methods to high-level technologies like Public Key Infrastructures, TLS, Embedded & Mobile-Security, E-Mail- or XML-Security. The JavaSecurity group is lead by Peter Lipp and actively participates in international standardisation activities like ETSI-ESI, OASIS-DSS or relevant IETF and W3C working groups.

IAIK's Krypto Group is lead by the cryptologist Vincent Rijmen. Vincent Rijmen is the co-designer of the algorithm Rijndael, which in October 2000 was selected by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) to become the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES).

Our main motivation is to provide state-of-the-art and standardized crypto solutions for passive RFID technology. To achieve this, it is necessary to design dedicated HW crypto modules that fulfil ultra low power requirements. Based on our suggested HW modules, we provide suggestions for secure protocol extensions and application prototypes using secure RFID technology. The vision of our research is to enable a Secure Internet of Things based on passive RFID devices with real crypto capability.

Based on more than ten years of experience in implementing Java™ based cryptography, the Trusted Computing and Java Team focuses on Java™ language and PKI support for Trusted Computing. Research aims at trusted technology for small devices like mobile phones and other embedded and networked systems.

We focus on secure application specific hardware implementations of cryptographic algorithms. The requirements for our developments are deduced from real word applications to find the best fitting optimization goals. Investigations on design methodologies and specific implementation issues (area efficiency, low-power, low energy, high-throughput, SCA protection) of symmetric and asymmetric cryptographic algorithms like AES, ECC, SHA, DES or RSA are performed.