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CryptacusNewsletter October17 PDF
CryptacusNewsletter October17 PDF
Cryptacus Newsletter
October 2017
Cryptacus Newsletter
Welcome to the October edition of the monthly
Cryptacus.eu newsletter, offering a glimpse into re-
cent developments in the cryptanalysis of IoT & re-
lated areas. Send more of your contributions, com-
ments & feedback at cryptacus.newsletter@irisa.fr
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in the Europol Headquarters in the All in all, an awesome and very
Hague later this month. informative piece of work.
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on online authentication, looking the UK and this investment is Blogs, posts and other
for a solution enabling citizens to starting to bore fruit. The com- good reads
seamless authenticate across a wide mon deadline for these posi-
range of applications and devices. tions is the 3rd of November.
The ultimate objective is to foster the The Lecturer position https:
widespread adoption of services and //goo.gl/G2NtmG has a salary
products provided within the Digi- range of £34,520 to £47,722
tal Single Market of the European and the Senior Lecturer posi-
Union. The call is a single stage and tion https://goo.gl/bRQdpu
has an estimated budget of 4 Mil- goes from £50,618 to £56,950.
lion EUR. The deadline for the sub-
mission of proposals is 27 Septem-
• Lecturer or Senior Lecturer at
ber 2018. You can get more info at
the University of Cambridge - NSA botched attempt at star-
https://goo.gl/JWr1h9.
Department of Computer Sci- dardisation in the news
ence and Technology. This is It is not frequent that cryptogra-
Open Positions a full time and permanent po- phy gets in the news. This piece
sitions located at Aston. The by news agency Reuters https:
deadline is the 10th January //goo.gl/nwhsiV was later repro-
2018. The Lecturer position duced in many other media, much
https://goo.gl/zDhzhk has to the chagrin of the NSA team that
a salary range of £53,691 to is attempting to make Simon and
£56,950. Interviews will be Speck into ISO standards. Our own
held on 19-20th March 2018. Orr Dunkelman had a memorable
contribution to the piece, and was
quoted saying ”I don’t trust the de-
For other interesting positions
signers. There are quite a lot of peo-
all across Europe, please check the
Please send us any employment op- ple in NSA who think their job is to
recently revamped “Researchers in
portunity you want to publicize in subvert standards. My job is to se-
Motion” portal https://euraxess.
the newsletter. cure standards.” This is not a won
ec.europa.eu/.
battle yet, and if you want to know
how you can contribute to stop this
• Hamilton Professorships in Proposals for STSMs from happening, please contact your
Computer Science at Maynooth By now, you should be already country representatives on the ISO
University. The areas of interest familiar with what Short Term Scien- Committee and let them know.
cover, between others, Cyber- tific Missions (or STSMs, for short)
security and Privacy. Plenty of are, but we have a healthy budget for
time to decide whether to ap- them within the Cryptacus project
ply, with a deadline on Friday and not enough demand.
20th of October. Salary could
be e110,060 to e139,501 p.a. Please send your willingness to
for Professor A and e80,650 receive STSMs proposal to me for
to e106,655 p.a. for the Pro- publishing here. Until I do not have
fessor B range. More info at any more, I’ll just publish mine.
https://goo.gl/LSvKhM.
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https://goo.gl/wwLpXr, let’s fo-
cus on this threat and work to fight
against it, right now.
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