Eike Kiltz

Eike Kiltz (* 1975 ) is a German mathematician in the field of cryptology and currently professor at the Ruhr University Bochum .

life and career

Kiltz studied 1995-2001 mathematics at the Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) and received his doctorate there in 2004. He then conducted research as a post-graduate student for one year at the University of San Diego . From 2005 to 2010 he was a member of the cryptology group at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam . In 2010, Kiltz was awarded the Sofja Kovalevskaja Prize for theoretical computer science . With the prize money of 1.65 million euros, he returned to the RUB and took on a W2 professorship for cryptology and IT security at the Horst Görtz Institute for Information Security . Kiltz's research focus is on the theoretical foundations of asymmetric encryption methods . The aim of his research is to improve the processes in such a way that, in contrast to today's public key processes such as the RSA cryptosystem , they are also secure against the use of the possible computing power of quantum computers .

In 2014, Kiltz received a grant from the European Research Council of 1.8 million euros for the continuation of his research .

Awards

• Best paper award IACR EUROCRYPT 2016
• ERC Grant 2014
• 2nd place at the German IT Security Award 2012
• Best paper award - International Association for Cryptologic Research EUROCRYPT 2011
• Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2010
• Best paper award IACR EUROCRYPT 2010
• Best paper award IACR EUROCRYPT 2009
• DAAD Postdoc Fellow 2004
• Marie-Curie Fellow of the European Union 2003

Web links

• Eike Kiltz's website at RUB
• Professor Eike Kiltz uses mathematics to fight hackers Der Westen, August 11, 2014
• Entry in the Bochum university bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Always a step ahead of the hacker . RUB press release, No. 291, January 25, 2011.
2. ^ Sofja Kovalevskaja Award 2010 ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
3. ↑ Interview with Professor Eike Kiltz on the subject of encryption ( memento from January 24, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). gulli.com, February 21, 2011.
4. ↑ 1.8 million euros for IT security research: European Research Council funds RUB cryptologists . Science Information Service, February 28, 2014.
5. ↑ 2nd prize: LaPIN - Future-proof cryptography for small embedded systems ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )