diff --git a/_posts/2018-04-23- felix-stutz.md b/_posts/2018-04-23- felix-stutz.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..192e2a7213f40b05a492922c31e7622ede5be726 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/2018-04-23- felix-stutz.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +--- +title: Welcome to Felix Stutz +--- + +We are very pleased to welcome Felix Stutz, an MSc student at +the [International Max Planck Research School for Computer Science](http://www.imprs-cs.de/index.html), +who is due to spend five months with the group, working with Emanuele D'Osualdo +on Ideal completions for Verification of Cryptographic Protocols. + +These protocols are distributed programs that are designed to achieve secure +communications using cryptography; they are notoriously very tricky to design +and reasoning about the security properties of these protocols requires proving +that no malicious intruder can hack the protocol to gain sensitive information, +e.g. your emails. + +In fact, every time you log in to your email account, make an online payment or +connect to a secure Wi-Fi (and in many other scenarios!) the communication is +made secure under the hood by the use of such cryptographic protocols. +The project's goal is to develop new algorithms to verify that a protocol does not leak any secret. + +For the theoretical basis for the project please +see [this paper](http://www.emanueledosualdo.com/research/papers/2017/csf-decidable-secrecy.html) +by D'Osualdo and others, which proposes a new approach for model checking cryptographic protocols. \ No newline at end of file