FIDS Postdoc Honored at Eurocrypt 2024

Michael Meyer and colleagues awarded at the Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (Eurocrypt)

At this year's Eurocrypt in Zurich, Switzerland, the Early-Career Best Paper Award went to a research paper by Michael Meyer, postdoc in the Data Security and Cryptography Group (Prof. Dr. Juliane Krämer) at the FIDS of the University of Regensburg.

Eurocrypt is one of the top international conferences in the field of cryptography - alongside the Crypto conference held in the USA and the Asiacrypt conference.
This year, 105 of 501 submitted research papers were accepted. Among these, two Best Paper Awards and an Early-Career Best Paper Award were awarded.

Michael Meyer shares his success at Eurocrypt 2024 with his co-authors Maria Corte-Real Santos (University College London), Jonathan Komada Eriksen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) and Krijn Reijnders (Radboud University Nijmegen).

The award-winning research paper "AprèsSQI: Extra Fast Verification for SQIsign Using Extension-Field Signing" presents an improved variant of the cryptographic post-quantum scheme SQIsign, which can be used to create and verify digital signatures. The digital signature scheme SQIsign is based on isogenies of supersingular elliptic curves and participates in the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization Process for the selection of the next generation of cryptographic schemes.