Centre for Research on Cryptography and Security
Centre for Research on Cryptography and Security started in 2006 as a laboratory at Masaryk University, Faculty of Informatics. We aim to improve security and privacy through applied research (often in cooperation with industry) and advanced education of future security professionals. Supplemented by occasional beer-touring, boardgaming and juggling.
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CRoCS's industrial partners
We cooperate on security research with many companies. Our most important partners are below.
2014 – 2016
factors influencing security SW choice/detection of potentially unwanted applications
CRoCS's academic partners
We do multidisciplinary research cooperating with several other institutions:
1998 – today
Security Group,
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge
2008 – today
Evolvable Hardware Group,
Brno University of Technology
Brno University of Technology
evolutionary algorithms in cryptography
2014 – today
Interdisciplinary Research Team on Internet and Society,
Masaryk University
Masaryk University
human aspects in security research
2023 – today
AI for Cyber Defence research centre,
The Alan Turing Institute
The Alan Turing Institute
Analysis of privacy transactions
People at CRoCS
Regular staff
- Václav (Vashek) Matyáš (head of laboratory)
- Marek Sýs (assistant profesor)
- Petr Švenda (associate professor)
- Lukasz Michal Chmielewski (assistant professor)
- Milan Brož (research specialist)
Ph.D. students
- Adam Janovský (machine learning for security)
- Lenka Knapová (usable security)
- Jan Jančár (side-channel attacks)
- Antonín Dufka (secure multi-party computation)
- Vojtěch Suchánek (elliptic curve cryptography)
- Katarína Galanská (usable security)
- Jan Kvapil (applied cryptography)
- Roman Lacko (trusted computing)
- Milan Šorf (hardware security devices)
- Jiří Gavenda (randomness analysis)
- Yasir Yakup Demircan (machine learning for security)
External cooperation
- Martin Ukrop (Red Hat)
- Marek Kumpošt (Oracle | NetSuite Security)
- Kamil Malinka (Institute of Computer Science, MU)
- Zdeněk Říha (Team Leader at European Commission)
- Andriy Stetsko (Y Soft Corporation, a.s.)
Master students