Groups

This is a non-exhaustive list of groups involved with cryptography and computer security research. You can also go the CSRankings and filter according to the selected fields (e.g. Computer Security, Cryptography)

Australia

• Monash University -- Software Systems and Cybersecurity (SSC)

• Queensland University of Technology

• University of Wollongong -- Institute of Cybersecurity and Cryptology (IC2) 

Belgium

• Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL)  -- Crypto Group

• University of Leuven (KU Leuven)  -- Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC)

Canada

• The University of Waterloo -- Cryptography, Security and Privacy (CrySP) 

• University of Calgary --  Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance (ISPIA). The institute originates from the Centre for Information Security and Cryptography (CISaC)

Denmark

• Aarhus University -- Cryptography and Security

• Technical University of Denmark -- Crypto @ MAT, Cyber Security research at DTU 

Finland

• Aalto University -- The Cryptography Group

France

•  Inria -- SECRET Project Team

Germany

• Ruhr University Bochum -- CRYPTO @ RUB 

• Ruhr University Bochum -- The Horst Görtz Institute of IT Security 

• The Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA)

• The Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy 

Japan

• NTT -- NTT Social Informatics Laboratories

Luxembourg

• University of Luxembourg -- CryptoLUX

Netherlands

• Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) -- Cryptology Group

• Eindhoven University of Technology -- Coding Theory and Cryptology

• TNO -- Applied Cryptography & Quantum Algorithms 

Norway

• Simula UiB

Singapore

• A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research -- Infocomm Security Department

• Nanyang Technological University -- Coding and Cryptography Research Group 

• Nanyang Technological University -- Symmetric Key and Lightweight Cryptography Lab (SyLLab) 

Switzerland

• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne -- Security and Cryptography Laboratory (LASEC)

• ETH Zürich -- Applied Cryptography Group

• ETH Zürich -- Information Security and Cryptography Research Group

Sweden

Lund University -- Crypto & Security

United Arab Emirates

• New York University Abu Dhabi (NYU AD) -- Center for Cyber Security

• Technology Innovation Institute (TII) -- Cryptography Research Centre

United Kingdom 

• King's College London -- Cybersecurity (CYS) Group

• Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) -- Information Security Group and Cryptography Group

• University College London -- Information Security Research Group (UCL ISec) 

• University of Cambridge -- Security Group

• University of Bristol -- Cryptography Group

United States      

• Carnegie Mellon University -- CyLab

• Columbia University -- CryptoLab

• George Mason University -- Cryptographic Engineering Research Group (CERG) 

• Google -- Security, Privacy & Abuse Research

• IBM T.J. Watson Research Center -- Cryptography Research

• Johns Hopkins University -- Information Security Institute

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Cryptography and Information Security and CyberSecurity@CSAIL

• Microsoft Research -- Cryptography Group

• MongoDB -- Cryptography Research Group

• New York University -- Cryptography Group

• Stanford University -- Applied Crypto Group and The Stanford Center for Blockchain Research

• University of California, Berkeley -- Security Research Lab

• University of California, Davis -- Computer Security Lab

• University of California, Los Angeles -- Center for Information and Computation Security

• University of California, San Diego -- Security and Cryptography

• University of Florida -- The Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research (FICS Research)

• University of Maryland -- Maryland Cybersecurity Center 

• Visa Research

Note that some of the pages linked by the URL above may not be regularly updated and the information provided by the page may be outdated. We are not responsible for any inaccuracies.

History (yyyy-mm-dd):

• 2024-02-11: Added CYS, King's College London

• 2024-02-06: It seems that the website of Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research under University of Waterloo, Canada has not been updated since 2019 . Therefore, I have replaced it with CrySP.

• 2024-02-06: Removed Computer and Information Security Research Lab (CISR) and replaced it with IC2 under University of Wollongong, Australia

• 2023-12-20: Added Monash University, NTT, MongoDB

• 2023-11-09: Added Simula UiB

• 2023-09-05: Added CERG, George Mason University

• 2023-04-06: Added TNO

• 2023-02-21: Added UCL ISec

• 2023-01-10: Added Applied Cryptography Group, ETH Zürich; SyLLaB, NTU

• 2022-08-10: Added CISPA, The Horst Görtz Institute for IT Security, The Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy

• 2022-07-20: Added NYU AD and TII

• 2021-09-24: Added Cryptography Group at RHUL

• 2020-01-16: Added the Stanford Center for Blockchain Research

• 2019-05-24: Added Visa Research

• 2017-03-02: Added Cryptology group at CWI to the list