2022
- Kenny Paterson, former Applied Crypto group member Igors Stepanovs and collaborators Martin Albrecht and Lenka Mareková from Royal Holloway, University of London, won a external pagedistinguished paper award at the IEEE Symposium on Security & Privacy 2022call_made analysing the Telegram secure messaging system.
- Kenny Paterson and Francesca Falzon, a former visitor of the Applied Crypto group and current PhD student at the University of Chicago, won a external pagebest student paper award at ESORICS 2022call_made for their joint work. The paper presents the first leakage abuse attack against a scheme that supports private shortest path queries on graphs, and it achieves this by extending a classical algorithm for the tree isomorphism problem.
- For their work on the security of OpenPGP Kenny Paterson, Lara Bruseghini, ETH Zurich & Proton AG, and Daniel Huigens, Proton AG, won a external pagedistinguished paper award at ACM CCS 2022call_made.
- Kenny Paterson won the ETH Golden Owl best teaching award for the Department of Computer Science.