Paul Nicolet and Hugo Moreau claim 1st prize

© 2017 Blockchain Comp 2017

© 2017 Blockchain Comp 2017

IC Master students, Paul Nicolet and Hugo Moreau, won the first prize in the blockchain competition at the Blockchain Summit – Crypto Valley 2017 in Zug last night. They left the competition with the modest first prize of 100,000 francs given for their "Shield IT" solution, a project initiated in the Laboratory for cryptologic algorithms of Professor Arjen Lenstra.