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SBA Research is a research center for Information Security
funded partly by the national initiative for COMET Competence Centers for Excellent Technologies.

Recent News:

Dr. Fatma Nur Esirci Oral Concludes Research Visit to SBA Research/DAMAST

SBA Research was delighted to host Dr. Fatma Nur Esirci Oral as a visiting researcher during the past three months. During her stay, Dr. Esirci Oral worked on security-oriented test vector generation for rarely activated logic in digital circuits, a topic relevant to hardware security testing. She also prepared a state-of-the-art overview to support the next steps in this line of research. ... Read More
Fatma presenting in meeting room

SBA @ Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026

Our colleague Nicholas Stifter, researcher and security analyst at SBA Research, presented his conference paper titled Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies at the Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026 in St. Kitts, USA. ... Read More
SBA @ Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026

Tomasz Miksa @ EOSC Winter School 2026

Tomasz Miksa, senior researcher at SBA Research, recently participated in the EOSC Winter School 2026, held from January 27–29 in Nice, France. He was presented the work on standardisation of maDMPs and was also moderating a session. ... Read More
Portrait of Tomasz Miksa

Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited

Dominique Schröder, key researcher at SBA Research and full professor of Privacy Enhancing Technologies at TU Wien published a new paper titled "Password-Hardened Encryption Revisited" which was presented at the 31st ASIACRYPT 2025 Melbourne, VIC, Australia. ... Read More
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