ISSS Excellence Award 2019

Ce prix récompense des travaux de bachelor, master et doctorat exceptionnels. Le prix de cette année a été décerné le 27 novembre 2019 à Zurich dans le cadre d'un ISSS Security Talk au cours duquel le Prof. Dr. Rolf Haenni de la BFH a parlé du thème E-Voting. Cette année le prix doté de 4000 francs suisses récompensant le meilleur travail de bachelor a été attribué à Gian-Luca Frei et Fedor Gamper de la Haute école spécialisée bernoise: «Design and Implementation of a Digital Access Control Protocol».

Le jury a motivé son choix comme suit:

In their thesis, the award winners present a novel approach for a well-known problem: Secure digital access to physical resources, such as cars or IoT devices. In the design of their novel protocol they use a public key recovery technique which drastically decreases the message size for exchanging certificates, which is especially of importance with low capacity transmission links, yielding a smaller transmission delay. Their approach was implemented as a prototype comprising (1) a web-based authorization application for secure user registration and the management of certificates, permissions and delegations, (2) a user application running on a smartphone, and (3) an application managing the controlled resource. The thesis, which also contains a performance and a security analysis, is very well written and a pleasure to read.

Le travail a été supervisé par la Prof. Dr Annett Laube et le Prof. Gerhard Hassenstein.