Personal Details
- Born 1970 in Biel, Switzerland
- Languages: German, French, English
Education
- Matura Type C (natural sciences), 1989
- M.Sc., ETH Zurich, 1995
- Educational Sciences, ETH Zurich, 1995
- Dr. sc. techn. (with honors), ETH Zurich, 2001
Research Directions
- Asynchronous networks
- Cryptographic protocols
- Efficiency improvements (both asymptotic and concrete)
- Generalized adversary models
- Electronic voting
Conference Committees
- Eurocrypt 2001
- Esorics 2002
- RSA CT 2002
- RSA CT 2004
- PKC 2005
- RSA CT 2006
- Eurocrypt 2006
- Crypto 2007
- Africacrypt 2009
- SCN 2010
- PKC 2011
- Africacrypt 2011
- TCC 2012
- SCN 2012
Publications
Latest publications. Complete list is hereMartin Hirt and Vassilis Zikas
Player-Centric Byzantine Agreement
Automata, Languages and Programming — 38th International Colloquium, ICALP 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 6755, pp. 281–292, Jul 2011.
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Martin Hirt, Christoph Lucas, Ueli Maurer, and Dominik Raub
Graceful Degradation in Multi-Party Computation
The 5th International Conference on Information Theoretic Security - ICITS 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, vol. 6673, pp. 163–180, 2011, Full Version available from http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/094.
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Zuzana Beerliova-Trubiniova, Martin Hirt, and Jesper Buus Nielsen
On the Theoretical Gap Between Synchronous and Asynchronous MPC Protocols
Proc. of the 2010 ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing — PODC '10, pp. 211–218, Jul 2010.
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