It is official: the internationally renowned "IACR Real World Crypto Symposium (RWC)" will take place in 2028 in Bochum. The plans were presented last week at this year’s RWC in Taipei, Taiwan, by the organizers from Ruhr University Bochum – Veelasha Moonsamy (Chair for Security and Privacy of Ubiquitous Systems) and Tim Güneysu (Chair for Security Engineering), both Principal Investigators at the Cluster of Excellence CASA.
In 2028, the symposium will be held from March 29 to 31, at the prestigious Jahrhunderthalle Bochum. Organized annually, the event brings together researchers in Cryptography and developers who implement cryptographic techniques in real-world systems. Serving as an important interface between fundamental research and practical deployment, the conference regularly attracts more than 600 participants from academia and industry.
The organizers are seeking for sponsors. If you are interested in sponsoring RWC 2028, please contact Veelasha Moonsamy (veelasha.moonsamy(at)rub.de).
At Real World Crypto 2026 in Taipei, several papers by researchers from the Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security (HGI) and Cluster of Excellence CASA were presented. An overview is provided below.
Lessons Learned from Cryptography Shortcuts on the Example of TLS Session Tickets
Sven Hebrok, Tim Leonhard Storm, Felix Matthias Cramer, Maximilian Radoy, Simon Nachtigall, Marcel Maehren, Nurullah Erinola, Juraj Somorovsky, Robert Merget, Jörg Schwenk
Paderborn University; Paderborn University and achelos GmbH; Ruhr University Bochum; Technology Innovation Institute
Formosa Crypto: End-to-end formally verified crypto software
José Bacelar Almeida, Gustavo Xavier Delerue Marinho Alves, Santiago Arranz-Olmos, Manuel Barbosa, Francisca Barros, Gilles Barthe, Lionel Blatter, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Ignacio Cuevas, François Dupressoir, Luís Esquível, Benjamin Grégoire, Ruben Gonzalez, Jan Jancar, Vincent Hwang, Vincent Laporte, Jean-Christophe Léchenet, Ting-han Lim, Cameron Low, Tiago Oliveira, Hugo Pacheco, Swarn Priya, Miguel Quaresma, Rolfe Schmidt, Peter Schwabe, Antoine Séré, Basavesh Ammanaghatta Shivakumar, Pierre-Yves Strub, Lucas Tabary-Maujean, Yuval Yarom, Zhiyuan Zhang, Jieyu Zheng
Universidade do Minho and INESC TEC; PQShield; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Universidade do Porto (FCUP) and INESC TEC; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and IMDEA Software Institute; University of Melbourne; University of Bristol; Université Côte d’Azur, Inria; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and Neodyme AG; Masaryk University; Université de Lorraine, CNRS, Inria, LORIA; WisRoot Tech; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and Least Authority; Signal; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy and Radboud University; LIX; Ruhr University Bochum
DTLS-SRTP: The Protocol Everyone is Using But Nobody is Checking
Martin Bach, Jean Paul Degabriele, Vukašin Karadžić, Lukas Knittel, Robert Merget
TU Darmstadt; Technology Innovation Institute; Ruhr-University Bochum
Chypnosis: Undervolting-based Static Side-channel Attacks
Kyle Mitard, Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana, Robert Dumitru, Yuval Yarom, Shahin Tajik
Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Ruhr University Bochum and The University of Adelaide; Ruhr University Bochum
End-to-End Encrypted Collaborative Documents
Christian Knabenhans, Zayd Maradni, Carmela Troncoso
EPFL; MPI-SWS; EPFL, MPI-SP
Migrating a Silicon Root of Trust to Post-Quantum Crypto
Amin Abdulrahman, Andrew 'bunnie' Huang, Evan Apinis, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Ruben Niederhagen, Felix Oberhansl, Hoang Nguyen Hien Pham, Jade Philipoom, Dominic Rizzo, Robert Schilling, Peter Schwabe, Tobias Stelzer, Augustine Tang, Andreas Zankl
Max-Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; independent; zeroRISC; Chelpis Quantum Corp.; Academia Sinica and University of Southern Denmark; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC); Rivos Inc.
Signal Lost (Integrity): The Signal App is More than the Sum of its Protocols
Kien Tuong Truong, Noemi Terzo, Peter Schwabe, Kenneth Paterson
ETH Zurich; Max-Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
Encryption in the microarchitectural world
Ping-Lun Wang, Fraser Brown, Riccardo Paccagnella, Eyal Ronen, Riad S. Wahby, Yuval Yarom
Carnegie Mellon University,Tel Aviv University,Ruhr University Bochum
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