International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 01 February 2013

Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
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We are looking for an outstanding PhD candidate to join our Systems Security Group at Intel Collaborative Research Institute for Secure Computing (ICRI-SC) at TU-Darmstadt to work on a European project FutureID to shape the Future of Electronic Identity. Electronic ID cards (eID’s) are now issued by many European countries and promise a drastic increase in the security and trust of identities on the Internet. Yet, everyday use of eID’s remains low ad lags far behind original expectations. The FutureID project attempts to change this by addressing some of the major hindrances to uptake.

The FutureID project builds a comprehensive, flexible privacy-aware and ubiquitously usable identity management infrastructure for Europe, which integrates existing eID technology and trust infrastructures, emerging federated identity management services and modern credential technologies to provide a user-centric system for the trustworthy and accountable management of identity claims.

Our research covers security aspects on different system abstraction layers and tackles the design and development of security architectures, trustworthy infrastructure, cryptographic protocols and security of mobile platforms (particularly smartphones).

The candidates should hold a Master Degree in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering and bring well-founded knowledge and experience in one or more of the following areas:

- Operating system security, in particular for mobile systems (e.g. Android)

- Trusted computing beyond TCG

- Software and embedded systems security

- Cryptographic protocols

You application should include your current curriculum vitae, MSc certificates and grades, a letter of motivation stating your interest in the position and your research interests and at least two letters of recommendation. Please direct your application to our team assistant Mrs. Heike Bartenschlager: office (at) icri-sc.tu- darmstad

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