Julia Hesse

Pronouns

She/Her/Hers

Title

Technical Assistant to Alessandro Curioni, VP IBM Research Europe & Africa

Bio

I am a Research Staff Member at IBM Research Zurich. Before joining the lab in 2019, I was a Postdoc at TU Darmstadt and ENS Paris. I obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 2016.

My research focuses on the security of cryptographic protocols, with a special interest in real-life security threats to key exchange protocols and password authentication.

More info can be found on https://juliahesse.de

Publications

The 2Hash OPRF Framework and Efficient Post-Quantum Instantiations
- - Ward Beullens
  - Lucas Dodgson
  - et al.
- 2025
- Eurocrypt 2025
PAKE Combiners and Efficient Post-Quantum Instantiations
- - Julia Hesse
  - Michael Rosenberg
- 2025
- Eurocrypt 2025
Password-Protected Key Retrieval with(out) HSM Protection
- - Sebastian Faller
  - Tobias Handirk
  - et al.
- 2024
- CCS 2024
Bare PAKE: Universally Composable Key Exchange from just Passwords
- - Manuel Barbosa
  - Kai Gellert
  - et al.
- 2024
- CRYPTO 2024
Generalized Fuzzy Password-Authenticated Key Exchange from Error Correcting Codes
- - Jonathan Bootle
  - Sebastian Faller
  - et al.
- 2023
- Asiacrypt 2023
Security Analysis of the WhatsApp End-to-End Encrypted Backup Protocol
- - Gareth T. Davies
  - Sebastian Faller
  - et al.
- 2023
- CRYPTO 2023
How to Bind Anonymous Credentials to Humans
- - Julia Hesse
  - Nitin Singh
  - et al.
- 2023
- USENIX Security 2023
Attribute-based Single Sign-On. Secure, Private, and Efficient.
- - Tore K. Frederiksen
  - Julia Hesse
  - et al.
- 2023
- PETS 2023
Password-Authenticated TLS via OPAQUE and Post-Handshake Authentication
- - Julia Hesse
  - Stanislaw Jarecki
  - et al.
- 2023
- Eurocrypt 2023
DualDory: Logarithmic-Verifier Linkable Ring Signatures Through Preprocessing
- - Jonathan Bootle
  - Kaoutar El Khiyaoui
  - et al.
- 2022
- ESORICS 2022

Projects

Self-Sovereign Identity
Self-sovereign identity as an important enabler of civilian and enterprise identity use-cases
Privacy-preserving Biometric Authentication
Cryptographic protocols for human authentication and the IoT