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COSIC
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COSIC provides a broad expertise in digital security and strives for innovative security solutions.
COSIC is headed by Bart Preneel.
https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/
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Our research expert Aysajan Abidin leading a breakout session on "Post-Quantum Cryptography: Roadmap, Status and Next Steps" at the Cybersecurity Industry Day in Mechelen yesterday.
#cif #pqc #postquantum
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Today at the Cybersecurity Industry Day in Mechelen, COSIC researchers are demonstrating real-world security challenges, from (un)safe hotel room locks to images that share the same hash value.
#cif #kuleuven
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Bart Preneel wil speak about privacy at "and& connect": "On November 13, start-ups, scale-ups and investors gather in Leuven, Europe’s Capital of Innovation. Not just to shake hands, but to ask the question that matters: What about us, humans?" www.andconnect.be
November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Closing the PQCSA Workshop on "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for Automotive". The day ends with group roadmap building, live feedback, and consensus on next steps.
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#pqcsa #pqc #postquantum #quantum #escar
November 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Group sessions to draft PQC transition steps and milestones, guided by the experts - at the PQCSA Workshop on "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry".
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#pqcsa #pqc #postquantum #quantum #escar
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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At the PQCSA Workshop on PQC Migration, Jan Klaußner (BDR, Germany) gives a brief introduction before participants move on to group sessions to draft PQC transition steps and milestones, guided by the experts.
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#pqcsa #pqc #postquantum #quantum #escar
November 7, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Aysajan Abidin (COSIC, KU Leuven) is organizing the PQCSA Workshop on "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry" in Frankfurt today. A day full of interesting talks and group discussions.
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#pqcsa #pqc #postquantum #quantum #escar
November 7, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Melissa Azouaoui (NXP, Germany) giving a talk on "Beyond Quantum Resilience: Embedded Security with and for PQC" at the PQCSA Workshop on "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry" today.
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#pqcsa #pqc #postquantum #quantum #escar
November 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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We are honoring the selection of the Belgian cipher #Rijndael as the Advanced Encryption Standard (#AES) at the IEEE Milestone Award Ceremony on November 18, 2025 in Heverlee, Belgium.
Interested? Sign up here: rijndael-ieeemilestone.cs.ru.nl/index
November 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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COSIC Prof Bart Preneel giving a lecture on "The Quantum Threat and its Impact on the Automotive Industry" at the PQCSA "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry" in Frankfurt today.
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#pqcsa #pqc #postquantum #quantum #escar
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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Takahito Yoshizawa (COSIC, KU Leuven) talking about the impact of PQC in V2X at the PQCSA Workshop on "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry" in Frankfurt today.
#pqcsa #pqc #postquantum #quantum #escar
November 7, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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🏅On 24 November FWO and FNRS are awarding the FWO-Excellence Prizes. COSIC Professor Ingrid Verbauwhede (KU Leuven) will receive the "Excellentieprijs dr. A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart 2025 in de Toegepaste Wetenschappen".
🖊️https://fwo.idloom.events/uitreiking-excellentieprijzen-2025
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Karthikeyan Bhargavan from Cryspen gave the keynote talk at the PQCSA workshop on "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry" this morning in Frankfurt.
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#pqcsa #pqc #postquantum #quantum #escar
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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This week in COSIC... Finally our PQCSA event in Frankfurt is happening! The workshop on "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry" will take place on Friday.
www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events...
November 3, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Valerio Ardizio is the newest member of Frederik Vercauteren's team!
"I chose COSIC because of its welcoming, inspiring, and stimulating research environment, as well as the outstanding expertise of the researchers who are part of this group."
#choosecosic
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Great news: the paper "Integral cryptanalysis in characteristic $p$" by our researchers Tim Beyne & Michiel Verbauwhede will receive the Best Theory and Early Career Award at #Asiacrypt 2025!
asiacrypt.iacr.org/2025/program...
November 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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Next week we are organizing the #PQCSA "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry" Workshop in Frankfurt (Germany).
👉You can still register (last chance): www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events...
October 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Exciting news! 🎉 COSIC Professor Vincent Rijmen has been selected as one of the finalists for the Belgian Cyber Security Awards 2025, a great recognition of his lasting impact and expertise in the Belgian cybersecurity community.🔐
#CyberSecurity #COSIC #KULeuven
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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We dove into the fascinating world of cryptography at the #Kinderuniversiteit in Leuven last weekend! The kids unraveled ancient codes, discovered how spies sent secret messages, and became real codebreakers. 🕵️‍♂️✨
October 30, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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A trip down memory lane with Ingrid Verbauwhede:
"A picture from history: ASIC design of a domain-specific programmable co-processor for DES (Data Encryption Standard) in 2.4micron CMOS, 2 layers of metal, licensed from imec to CryptechNV"
Source: www.linkedin.com/posts/ingrid...
October 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Welcome to Stelios Manasidis, who is visiting us and researching hardware implementations of post-quantum signature schemes.
#choosecosic
October 29, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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COSIC researcher Quinten Norga attended the ACM SIGSAC CCS conference in Taipei (Taiwan) and wrote a cool blog post: "ACM CCS 2025 Spotlight: How Bad Was The Falcon Bug of 2019?", check it out at www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/c...
#acm #ccs #acmccs
October 28, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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The new program for the PQCSA workshop on PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry is now online. Last chance to register: www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events...
#PQCSA #PQC #ESCAR #PostQuantum
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Info and registration:
www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/events...
#PQCSA #PQC #escar #postquantum
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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We are excited to share that Karthikeyan Bhargavan, co-founder and chief research scientist at Cryspen, will give a keynote talk at the PQCSA "PQC Migration & Supply Chain Readiness for the Automotive Industry" workshop (co-located with ESCAR in Frankfurt).
October 27, 2025 at 10:45 AM