The US National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has selected Ascon as new standard for lightweight cryptography. This concludes the NIST Lightweight Crypto (LWC) project, a 4-year competition with the goal of standardizing a lightweight authenticated encryption algorithm suitable for constrained environments. Ascon was developed in 2014 at IAIK, TU Graz by Christoph Dobraunig […]
Our lecture “Information Security” is the best-evaluated bachelor-level course of the CS&BME faculty! In an award ceremony at CS&BME Faculty Day 2022, the faculty celebrated both the best students (“Dean’s List”) and, for the first time this year, the best course (“Students’ List”) in each degree programme. “Information Security VO” won with the best evaluations […]
The US National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has announced the 10 finalists for the last round of the Lightweight Crypto (LWC) Competition. The goal of this competition is to standardize a lightweight authenticated encryption algorithm suitable for constrained environments. It started in 2019 with 56 Round-1 candidates and is expected to select a […]
Jakob Heher is currently working on his master’s thesis on the security of online learning platforms, for which he has now received the WKO Forschungsstipendium 2020/21! The stipend will be awarded in an award ceremony in 2021. The WKO Steiermark annually awards 20 students, who are honoured with a grant of €2100 for the development […]
