Welcome to CrySP!
CrySP carries out research in the areas of cryptography, security, and privacy. The members of CrySP study a wide variety of topics, from designing cryptographic protocols to the evaluation of their effectiveness and usability in deployed systems. Here are some examples....
News
- Welcome to Xinyue Shen, our newest CrySP faculty member!
- Congratulations to Professor Urs Hengartner, Aswad Tariq, and Alexandru Bara for winning the Best Paper Award at SACMAT 2026 for their research on behavioural biometrics!
- Congratulations to Vasisht Duddu for being named an MLCommons Rising Star for 2026, recognizing his contributions to machine learning and systems research!
- Congratulations to Professor Asokan for being named a University Professor, a rare and prestigious honour bestowed by the University of Waterloo!
- Congratulations to Professor Florian Kerschbaum for being named a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions on data security and privacy!
- Congratulations to Professor Ian Goldberg and former doctoral students Aniket Kate and Gregory Zaverucha for receiving the 2025 ASIACRYPT Test of Time Award for their foundational work on reducing communication costs in cryptographic protocols
- Congratulations to CrySP faculty member Meng Xu and Sihang Liu on securing $254,000 in funding from the National Cybersecurity Consortium to strengthen the security of large language model agents
- Congratulations to CrySP student Anudeep Das, supervised by Professors Nadarajah Asokan and Florian Kerschbaum, for receiving $58,100 USD from Open Philanthropy to advance research on stealthy and resilient LLM backdoors
- Congratulations to Professors Diogo Barradas and Urs Hengartner and collaborators for winning the Best Research Paper Award at ARES 2025 for their paper "On the Feasibility of Fingerprinting Collaborative Robot Network Traffic"
- CrySP is actively looking for students interested in grad studies. See 'Prospective Students' on the left for details.
