Christoph Egger

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Christoph Egger
Lehrstuhl für angewandte Kryptographie
Fürther Str. 246c / Eingang 5
90429 Nurnberg

Email: Christoph.Egger@fau.de
Jabber: christoph@egger.im

PGP

9FED 5C6C E206 B70A 5857  70CA 9655 22B9 D49A E731
3C1F 32FB E637 85F2 4461  4AD2 53C2 B1F9 83C5 BAA3

About Me

I am a senior PhD Student in Cryptography. As a master student I worked on Modal Logic and Category Theory and as a Bachelor Student on Anonymous Communication and Software Product Lines. I am also a founding member of the FAUST CTF team and its own competition, FAUST-CTF. Finally I am a Free Software person. I have been a Debian Developer for more than 10 years and have contributed to a variety of software projects including the Linux kernel and the Git version control system.

Research Interests

My current research focus is on cryptographic proofs: Composability (both in the classical Universal Composability interpretation as well as composition and modularization of proofs) and extending security from cryptographic primitives towards their concrete use (for example concerning Ring Signatures and Steganography).

I am also interested in computational notions of entropy, the limits of black box techniques (and related fields like oracle separations) as well as fine-grained and bounded-space cryptography.

In the past I have worked, among other things, on System Software Engineering and Software Product Lines, Coalgebraic Modal Logic and Anonymity Networks.

Free Software

I am a Debian Developer since December 2009, my first contributions go back to 2016. From roughly 2010 to 2016 I have been a core member of the kFreeBSD team supporting this rather unusual combination of BSD and GNU components. Additionally, many small contributuions to different Free Software projects are the result of my Debian work. I have initiated the internationalization effort of Unknown Horizons originaly implementing its multi-language support. As a research assistant in the VAMOS research project I contributed more than 50 changes to the Linux Kernel. I also added public key pinning support to the Git version control system.

Internships & Research Visits

Comunity Service

Publications

A Security Framework for Distributed Ledgers
Christoph Egger, Mike Graf, Ralf Küsters, Daniel Rausch, Viktoria Ronge, Dominique Schröder
In: IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch. 2021()
[PDF | BibTeX]
@article{DBLP:journals/iacr/EggerGKRRS21,
  author    = {Christoph Egger and
               Mike Graf and
               Ralf K{\"{u}}sters and
               Daniel Rausch and
               Viktoria Ronge and
               Dominique Schr{\"{o}}der},
  title     = {A Security Framework for Distributed Ledgers},
  journal   = {{IACR} Cryptol. ePrint Arch.},
  volume    = {2021},
  pages     = {145},
  year      = {2021},
  url       = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/145},
  timestamp = {Tue, 02 Mar 2021 17:33:52 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/iacr/EggerGKRRS21.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}
Foundations of Ring Sampling
Viktoria Ronge, Christoph Egger, Russell W. F. Lai, Dominique Schröder, Hoover H. F. Yin
In: Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. 2021(3)
[PDF]

  


  

    
The Patient as Genomic Data Manager - Evaluation of the PROMISE
App

    
Lena Griebel, Marc Hinderer, Ali Amr, Benjamin Meder, Marc Schweig, Dominic Deuber, Christoph Egger, Claudia Kawohl, Annika Krämer, Isabell Flade, Dominique Schröder, Hans-Ulrich Prokosch

    
In: Digital Personalized Health and Medicine - Proceedings of MIE 2020, Medical Informatics Europe, Geneva, Switzerland, April 28 - May 1, 2020

    
[DOI | BibTeX]

    
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/mie/GriebelHAMSD0KK20,
  author    = {Lena Griebel and
               Marc Hinderer and
               Ali Amr and
               Benjamin Meder and
               Marc Schweig and
               Dominic Deuber and
               Christoph Egger and
               Claudia Kawohl and
               Annika Kr{\"{a}}mer and
               Isabell Flade and
               Dominique Schr{\"{o}}der and
               Hans{-}Ulrich Prokosch},
  editor    = {Louise Bilenberg Pape{-}Haugaard and
               Christian Lovis and
               Inge Cort Madsen and
               Patrick Weber and
               Per Hostrup Nielsen and
               Philip Scott},
  title     = {The Patient as Genomic Data Manager - Evaluation of the {PROMISE}
               App},
  booktitle = {Digital Personalized Health and Medicine - Proceedings of {MIE} 2020,
               Medical Informatics Europe, Geneva, Switzerland, April 28 - May 1,
               2020},
  series    = {Studies in Health Technology and Informatics},
  volume    = {270},
  pages     = {1061--1065},
  publisher = {{IOS} Press},
  year      = {2020},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.3233/SHTI200324},
  doi       = {10.3233/SHTI200324},
  timestamp = {Wed, 03 Feb 2021 08:36:36 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/mie/GriebelHAMSD0KK20.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}



  


  

    
Threshold Password-Hardened Encryption Services

    
Julian Brost, Christoph Egger, Russell W. F. Lai, Fritz Schmid, Dominique Schröder, Markus Zoppelt

    
In: CCS '20: 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Virtual Event, USA, November 9-13, 2020

    
[PDF | DOI | BibTeX]

    
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ccs/Brost0LSSZ20,
  author    = {Julian Brost and
               Christoph Egger and
               Russell W. F. Lai and
               Fritz Schmid and
               Dominique Schr{\"{o}}der and
               Markus Zoppelt},
  editor    = {Jay Ligatti and
               Xinming Ou and
               Jonathan Katz and
               Giovanni Vigna},
  title     = {Threshold Password-Hardened Encryption Services},
  booktitle = {{CCS} '20: 2020 {ACM} {SIGSAC} Conference on Computer and Communications
               Security, Virtual Event, USA, November 9-13, 2020},
  pages     = {409--424},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2020},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3372297.3417266},
  doi       = {10.1145/3372297.3417266},
  timestamp = {Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:30:44 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ccs/Brost0LSSZ20.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}



  


  

    
Atomic Multi-Channel Updates with Constant Collateral in Bitcoin-Compatible
Payment-Channel Networks

    
Christoph Egger, Pedro Moreno-Sanchez, Matteo Maffei

    
In: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, CCS 2019, London, UK, November 11-15, 2019.

    
[PDF | DOI | BibTeX]

    
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/ccs/0001MM19,
  author    = {Christoph Egger and
               Pedro Moreno{-}Sanchez and
               Matteo Maffei},
  editor    = {Lorenzo Cavallaro and
               Johannes Kinder and
               XiaoFeng Wang and
               Jonathan Katz},
  title     = {Atomic Multi-Channel Updates with Constant Collateral in Bitcoin-Compatible
               Payment-Channel Networks},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 {ACM} {SIGSAC} Conference on Computer and
               Communications Security, {CCS} 2019, London, UK, November 11-15, 2019},
  pages     = {801--815},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3319535.3345666},
  doi       = {10.1145/3319535.3345666},
  timestamp = {Tue, 10 Nov 2020 20:00:36 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/ccs/0001MM19.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}



  


  

    
My Genome Belongs to Me: Controlling Third Party Computation on Genomic
Data

    
Dominic Deuber, Christoph Egger, Katharina Fech, Giulio Malavolta, Dominique Schröder, Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan, Florian Battke, Claudia Durand

    
In: Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol. 2019(1)

    
[DOI | BibTeX]

    
@article{DBLP:journals/popets/DeuberEFMSTBD19,
  author    = {Dominic Deuber and
               Christoph Egger and
               Katharina Fech and
               Giulio Malavolta and
               Dominique Schr{\"{o}}der and
               Sri Aravinda Krishnan Thyagarajan and
               Florian Battke and
               Claudia Durand},
  title     = {My Genome Belongs to Me: Controlling Third Party Computation on Genomic
               Data},
  journal   = {Proc. Priv. Enhancing Technol.},
  volume    = {2019},
  number    = {1},
  pages     = {108--132},
  year      = {2019},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.2478/popets-2019-0007},
  doi       = {10.2478/popets-2019-0007},
  timestamp = {Tue, 01 Sep 2020 13:13:12 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/popets/DeuberEFMSTBD19.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}



  


  

    
Simple Password-Hardened Encryption Services

    
Russell W. F. Lai, Christoph Egger, Manuel Reinert, Sherman S. M. Chow, Matteo Maffei, Dominique Schröder

    
In: 27th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2018, Baltimore, MD, USA, August 15-17, 2018

    
[PDF | BibTeX]

    
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/uss/Lai0RCMS18,
  author    = {Russell W. F. Lai and
               Christoph Egger and
               Manuel Reinert and
               Sherman S. M. Chow and
               Matteo Maffei and
               Dominique Schr{\"{o}}der},
  editor    = {William Enck and
               Adrienne Porter Felt},
  title     = {Simple Password-Hardened Encryption Services},
  booktitle = {27th {USENIX} Security Symposium, {USENIX} Security 2018, Baltimore,
               MD, USA, August 15-17, 2018},
  pages     = {1405--1421},
  publisher = {{USENIX} Association},
  year      = {2018},
  url       = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/lai},
  timestamp = {Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:43:20 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/uss/Lai0RCMS18.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}



  


  

    
Phoenix: Rebirth of a Cryptographic Password-Hardening Service

    
Russell W. F. Lai, Christoph Egger, Dominique Schröder, Sherman S. M. Chow

    
In: 26th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 16-18, 2017

    
[PDF | BibTeX]

    
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/uss/Lai0SC17,
  author    = {Russell W. F. Lai and
               Christoph Egger and
               Dominique Schr{\"{o}}der and
               Sherman S. M. Chow},
  editor    = {Engin Kirda and
               Thomas Ristenpart},
  title     = {Phoenix: Rebirth of a Cryptographic Password-Hardening Service},
  booktitle = {26th {USENIX} Security Symposium, {USENIX} Security 2017, Vancouver,
               BC, Canada, August 16-18, 2017},
  pages     = {899--916},
  publisher = {{USENIX} Association},
  year      = {2017},
  url       = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical-sessions/presentation/lai},
  timestamp = {Mon, 01 Feb 2021 08:43:05 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/uss/Lai0SC17.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}



  


  

    
Global Caching for the Alternation-free \(μ\)-Calculus

    
Daniel Hausmann, Lutz Schröder, Christoph Egger

    
In: 27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, CONCUR 2016, August 23-26, 2016, Québec City, Canada

    
[PDF | DOI | BibTeX]

    
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/concur/HausmannSE16,
  author    = {Daniel Hausmann and
               Lutz Schr{\"{o}}der and
               Christoph Egger},
  editor    = {Jos{\'{e}}e Desharnais and
               Radha Jagadeesan},
  title     = {Global Caching for the Alternation-free {\(\mu\)}-Calculus},
  booktitle = {27th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, {CONCUR} 2016,
               August 23-26, 2016, Qu{\'{e}}bec City, Canada},
  series    = {LIPIcs},
  volume    = {59},
  pages     = {34:1--34:15},
  publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"{u}}r Informatik},
  year      = {2016},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.34},
  doi       = {10.4230/LIPIcs.CONCUR.2016.34},
  timestamp = {Mon, 24 Feb 2020 15:00:26 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/concur/HausmannSE16.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}



  


  

    
Practical Attacks against the I2P Network

    
Christoph Egger, Johannes Schlumberger, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna

    
In: Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses - 16th International Symposium, RAID 2013, Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, October 23-25, 2013. Proceedings

    
[PDF | DOI | BibTeX]

    
@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/raid/EggerSKV13,
  author    = {Christoph Egger and
               Johannes Schlumberger and
               Christopher Kruegel and
               Giovanni Vigna},
  editor    = {Salvatore J. Stolfo and
               Angelos Stavrou and
               Charles V. Wright},
  title     = {Practical Attacks against the {I2P} Network},
  booktitle = {Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses - 16th International
               Symposium, {RAID} 2013, Rodney Bay, St. Lucia, October 23-25, 2013.
               Proceedings},
  series    = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  volume    = {8145},
  pages     = {432--451},
  publisher = {Springer},
  year      = {2013},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41284-4\_22},
  doi       = {10.1007/978-3-642-41284-4\_22},
  timestamp = {Tue, 14 May 2019 10:00:53 +0200},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/conf/raid/EggerSKV13.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}



  


  

    
Facing the Linux 8000 Feature Nightmare

    
Julio Sincero, Reinhard Tartler, Christoph Egger, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Daniel Lohmann

    
In: Proceedings of ACM European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys 2010), Best Posters and Demos Session

    
[PDF]

    

  


  

    
Configuration coverage in the analysis of large-scale system software

    
Reinhard Tartler, Daniel Lohmann, Christian Dietrich, Christoph Egger, Julio Sincero

    
In: ACM SIGOPS Oper. Syst. Rev. 45(3)

    
[PDF | DOI | BibTeX]

    
@article{DBLP:journals/sigops/TartlerLDES11,
  author    = {Reinhard Tartler and
               Daniel Lohmann and
               Christian Dietrich and
               Christoph Egger and
               Julio Sincero},
  title     = {Configuration coverage in the analysis of large-scale system software},
  journal   = {{ACM} {SIGOPS} Oper. Syst. Rev.},
  volume    = {45},
  number    = {3},
  pages     = {10--14},
  year      = {2011},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2094091.2094095},
  doi       = {10.1145/2094091.2094095},
  timestamp = {Mon, 26 Oct 2020 08:24:58 +0100},
  biburl    = {https://dblp.org/rec/journals/sigops/TartlerLDES11.bib},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org}
}



  






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