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Jana Sotáková wins best paper award at CRYPTO 2020.

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Jana Sotáková, PhD student at Qusoft and UvA, won the best-paper award at the IACR flagship conference CRYPTO 2020 for her article "Breaking the Decisional Diffie-Hellman Problem for Class Group Actions Using Genus Theory".

Jana Sotáková is a PhD student of Christian Schaffner (ILLC, UVA), Serge Fehr (CWI) and Peter Bruin (MI Leiden). Her article is co-authored with Dr. Wouter Castryck and Dr. Frederik Vercauteren of the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) research group in the Department of Electrical Engineering at KU Leuven.

Jana's homepage:
https://jana-sotakova.github.io/

Best-paper article:
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56880-1_4

Conference program:
https://crypto.iacr.org/2020/program.php#session-118