Felix Günther receives ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award
Postdoctoral researcher Felix Günther received this significant award in the field of computer and information security at the 26th ACM Computer and Communication Security Conference in London, UK.
Dr. Günther won recognition for his thesis "Modeling Advanced Security Aspects of Key Exchange and Secure Channel Protocols" and was awarded at this year's award ceremony of the annual ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), considered one of the top security conferences worldwide. The award recognises excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of computer and information security. SIGSAC is the special interest group on security, audit and control of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), developing and supporting the IT security profession through organization and sponsoring of high-quality research conferences and workshops.
Felix Günther is a postdoctoral researcher in the Applied Cryptography Group, led by Prof. Kenny Paterson. Mr. Günther's interests lie in applied cryptography enabling computer security, and provable cryptographic security more specifically. His work aims to narrow the gap between the theoretical understanding and practical security of real-world cryptographic systems. To this end, he especially investigates the provable security of (Internet) cryptographic protocols for key exchange and secure channels, for example the prominent Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol. In doing so, Mr. Günther's work broadly encompasses theoretical modeling of security properties and assumptions, provable-security analyses of real-world protocols, as well as guidance on practical protocol design.