Swiss Crypto Day

4 September 2026, ETH Zürich

The sixth Swiss Crypto Day will be held at ETH Zürich on Friday, September 4th, 2026.

To participate at the event, please register here. The registration closes on Friday, August 21. There is no participation fee.

Program

Below is a preliminary program, details will follow soon.

10:00   Registration & Welcome Coffee
10:30   Opening Remarks
10:45   Stefano Tessaro (University of Washington)
    tbd
11:30   Matilda Backendal (Università della Svizzera italiana)
    tbd
12:00   Short Talks Session I (10 minutes per talk)
    Andrea Caforio (lowRISC C.I.C.): Assembling Lattices: Secure and Efficient PQC in OpenTitan
    Patrick Towa ([[alloc] init]): Implementable Witness Encryption from Arithmetic Affine Determinant Programs
    Marc Ilunga (Trail of Bits): Informalizing Cryptographic Proofs
12:35   Lunch Break
14:00   Andrea Basso (IBM Research Zurich)
    tbd
14:30   Chiara Spadafora, Audhild Hoegaasen (Swiss Post)
    When Cryptography Meets Reality: Insights from the Swiss Post E‑Voting Protocol
14:55   Short Talks Session II (10 minutes per talk)
    Silvia Sconza (University of Zurich): ORCAS - An Efficient Adaptor Signature based on CSI-FiSh
    Sina Schaeffler (IBM Research Zurich, ETH Zurich): MIKE: a fast and compact post-quantum NIKE
    Florias Papadopoulos (University of St. Gallen): Privacy-preserving Proximity Testing from Geometric Fuzzy Matching
15:30   Coffee Break
16:00   Emanuele Giunta (ETH Zurich)
    tbd
     

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