International Association
for Cryptologic Research

The Cryptographic Algorithms group at the Center for IT-Security, Privacy, and Accountability at Saarland University has several opening for excellent and highly motivated PhD students and Postdocs. Possible research interests of our group include (but are not limited to)

• Cryptographic protocols
• Secure two/multi-party computation
• Verifiable computation
• Functional signatures
• Cryptography based on hardware assumptions
• Cryptocurrencies
• Foundations

We investigate these topics both from a theoretical and applied perspective. The Cryptographic Algorithms Group is part of the Center for IT-Security and Privacy (short: CISPA). The CISPA was founded in October 2011 as a competence center for IT security at Saarland University. It is a joint endeavor of Saarland University (UdS) and its on-site partner institutions: the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (MPI-INF), the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI).

Interested PhD students are expected to have a very strong background in mathematics and/or computer science. Please send a motivation letter and your complete transcripts to Dominique Schröder ds (AT) ca.cs.uni-saarland.de. Starting date is negotiable. Review of applications starts immediately until the position is filled.

Postdocs applicants are expected to have a PhD in cryptography or related areas, excellence in research proven for example by publications in IACR conferences and workshops CRYPTO, EUROCRYPT, ASIACRYPT, TCC, PKC,... or IT security venues like IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, NDSS, USENIX Security,…. Postdoc applicants should contact Dominique Schröder ds (AT) ca.cs.uni-saarland.de. Starting date is negotiable. Review of applications starts immediately until the position is filled.

Closing date for applications: 31 January 2016

Contact: Dominique Schröder: ds (AT) ca.cs.uni-saarland.de

More information: http://www.ca.cs.uni-saarland.de