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Casimier Joseph Franciscus "Cas" Cremers (born 1974) is a computer scientist and a faculty member at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbruecken, Germany.


Career

Cremers received his PhD from
Eindhoven University of Technology The Eindhoven University of Technology ( nl, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), abbr. TU/e, is a public technical university in the Netherlands, located in the city of Eindhoven. In 2020–21, around 14,000 students were enrolled in its BSc a ...
in 2006, under the supervision of Sjouke Mauw and Erik de Vink. Between 2006 and 2013, he worked at the Information Security Group at
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, Switzerland, until joining the
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in 2013. He was made full professor of Information Security in 2015. His research focuses on information security, in particular the formal analysis of security protocols. This work ranges from developing mathematical foundations for protocol analysis to the development of analysis tools, notably the Scyther and Tamarin tools. Recently his research expanded into directions such as protocol standardisation, including the improvement of the ISO/IEC 9798 standard, and applied cryptography, leading to the development of new security requirements and protocols. His joint work with Marko Horvat, Sam Scott, and Thyla van der Merwe led to a not insignificant change to the TLS 1.3 specification. In 2018 Cremers moved from Oxford University to the Cispa Helmholtz Center for Information Security at Saarbrücken. Cremers previously worked in MSX
computer game development Video game development (or gamedev) is the process of developing a video game. The effort is undertaken by a developer, ranging from a single person to an international team dispersed across the globe. Development of traditional commercial PC ...
, initially working for the Sigma Group before founding his own group Parallax; he is credited for work on nine different games, and many other demos, in a combination of roles including programmer, designer, composer, and writer. He was interviewed by blog "Distrito Entebras" on the history of his career working in MSX games development.


Publications

Cremers' publications cover
security Security is protection from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) caused by others, by restraining the freedom of others to act. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be of persons and social ...
,
cryptography Cryptography, or cryptology (from grc, , translit=kryptós "hidden, secret"; and ''graphein'', "to write", or ''-logia'', "study", respectively), is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adver ...
,
ISO standards The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ) is an international standard development organization composed of representatives from the national standards organizations of member countries. Membership requirements are given in Art ...
, automated verification of security protocols, and
formal methods In computer science, formal methods are mathematically rigorous techniques for the specification, development, and verification of software and hardware systems. The use of formal methods for software and hardware design is motivated by the expec ...
. His thesis was entitled "Scyther - Semantics and Verification of Security Protocols", and was supervised by Sjouke Mauw and Erik de Vink. Also published with Sjouke Mauw is their book ''Operational Semantics and Verification of Security Protocols''.


References


External links

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Cas Cremers' personal web-pageCISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

Video of Blade Lords (MSX)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cremers, Cas 1974 births Living people Dutch computer scientists Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford Fellows of Kellogg College, Oxford Formal methods people Eindhoven University of Technology alumni People from Geleen Dutch computer programmers Computer security academics