Prof. Dr. Kenneth Paterson
Prof. Dr. Kenneth Paterson
Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science
Head of Dep. of Computer Science
Additional information
Course Catalogue
Autumn Semester 2024
| Number | Unit |
|---|---|
| 252-4601-00L | Current Topics in Information Security |
| 263-0009-00L | Information Security Lab |
| 263-4640-00L | Network Security |
| 364-1058-00L | Risk Center Seminar Series |
Education and professional milestones:
- B.Sc. from the external pageUniversity of Glasgow in 1990; Ph.D. from the external pageUniversity of London in 1993, both in Mathematics.
- Royal Society Fellow at the Institute for Signal and Information Processing at ETH Zurich, from 1993 to 1994.
- external pageLloyd's of London Tercentenary Foundation Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, from 1994 to 1996.
- Joined external pageHewlett-Packard Laboratories Bristol in 1996, becoming a project manager in 1999.
- Joined the Information Security Group at external pageRoyal Holloway, University of London in 2001, becoming a Reader in 2002 and a Professor in 2004.
- EPSRC Leadership Fellow working on a project entitled external pageCryptography: Bridging Theory and Practice from March 2010 to May 2015.
- Reverted to being a Professor of Information Security in May 2015.
- Joined the Department of Computer Science at ETH Zurich in April 2019. Founder and Head of the Applied Cryptography Group; Associate Department Head in 2021 and 2022; Department Head from 1 January 2023.
- Research over the last two decades mostly in the area of Cryptography, with a strong emphasis on the analysis of deployed cryptographic systems and the development of provably secure solutions to real-world cryptographic problems.
- Co-founder of the external pageReal World Cryptography series of workshops to support the development of this broad area and to strengthen the links between academia and industry.
- Co-chair of the IRTF's research group on Cryptography, external pageCFRG from 2014 to 2019. This group is working to provide expert advice to the IETF in an effort to strengthen the Internet's core security protocols.
- Research on the security of TLS (the external pageLucky 13 attack on CBC-mode encryption in TLS and external pageattacks on RC4) received significant media attention, helped to drive the widespread adoption of TLS 1.2 with its support for modern encryption schemes, and was an important factor in the TLS Working Group's decision to abandon legacy encryption mechanisms in TLS 1.3.
A selection of research prizes and awards:
- external pageGoogle Distinguished Paper Award for joint work with Nadhem AlFardan presenting external pageplaintext recovery attacks against DTLS published at NDSS 2012.
- external pageApplied Networking Research Prize from the IRTF for work with Nadhem AlFardan on the external pageLucky 13 attack.
- external pageAward for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologiesfor work with Mihir Bellare and Phil Rogaway on the external pageSecurity of symmetric encryption against mass surveillance published at CRYPTO 2014.
- Work with Martin Albrecht, Jean Paul Degabriele and Torben Hansen on external pagesymmetric encryption in SSH won a best paper award at ACM CCS 2016.
- Best paper awards at external pageCHES and external pageIMC in 2018.
- Work analysing the external pageTelegram secure messaging system won an IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Distinguished Paper Award in 2022.
- Joint work with Francesca Falzon, a former visitor of the Applied Crypto group and PhD student at the University of Chicago won a external pagebest student paper award at ESORICS 2022.
- Research on the external pagesecurity of OpenPGP won a distinguished paper award at ACM CCS 2022.
- external pageA distinguished paper award at the 2023 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy for work with Matilda Backendal and Miro Haller.
Other career highlights:
- Programme Chair for external pageEUROCRYPT 2011.
- Invited speaker at external pageASIACRYPT 2014.
- Editor-in-chief of the external pageJournal of Cryptology from 2017 to 2020.
- Made a external pagefellow of the IACR in 2017.
- Winner of the ETH Golden Owl best teaching award for the Department of Computer Science in 2022.
Recent publications: