Born 1972, Perrig is a Swiss computer science researcher specialising in the areas of security, networking, and applied cryptography.
[1] To commercialise the SCION technology, Adrian Perrig in 2017 founded the ETH Zurich spin-off Anapaya Systems together with Samuel Hitz and fellow professors at the Department of Computer Science David Basin and Peter Müller".
[12][13] Starting in 2004, Perrig's research group has been studying hardware-based approaches leveraging the newly deployed TPM chip for trustworthy computing.
With Bryan Parno and Jon McCune, Perrig published the introductory book Bootstrapping Trust in Modern Computers".
Since 2013, Perrig and his Network Security group at ETH Zürich further develop and introduce new components to the SCION architecture.