Stronger software protection: New CD Laboratory

10.06.2024: The Christian Doppler Laboratory for Assurance and Transparency in Software Protection opens at the University of Vienna.

Software protection in modern use cases such as self-driving cars is very complex: on the one hand, it must ensure that no unauthorised access to the source code is possible from outside, for example to maliciously modify or steal it. On the other hand, the protection itself must not cause any changes to the function of the software that could lead to problems and, in the worst case, accidents. In order to further increase the security and reliability of important software services, Head of Laboratory Sebastian Schrittwieser and his team, supported by commercial partner fragmentiX Storage Solutions GmbH, are therefore working on new methods of software protection.

(c) privat — From left to right: CEO Werner Strasser and CTO Christoph Pacher (both fragmentiX Storage Solutions GmbH), Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science Wilfried Gansterer, Vice Rector for Digitalisation and Knowledge Transfer Ronald Maier and Head of Laboratory Sebastian Schrittwieser (all University of Vienna), Ulrike Unterer, CDG Vice President and BMAW Head of Key Technologies, Hermann Heinrich, BMAW Policy Officer Key Technologies, and Bjorn De Sutter, Professor at the University of Ghent.

Further information on the CD-Laboratory

Press release (University of Vienna)

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