Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO)

As today's world gets more and more connected, actors with different and potentially conflicting interests want to interact in many application scenarios. Examples are citizens and governments (electronic passport and id), patients and health insurances (electronic health card, e-health services), or companies (cloud computing). In this context, it is of foremost importance that the underlying IT systems and algorithms can fulfill the diverse security and privacy requirements of the involved parties. In particular, if sensitive (e.g., medical or personal) data is processed by not fully trusted service providers (e.g., in the cloud), conformity with data privacy protection laws such as the EU GDPR must be guaranteed.

Privacy-preserving cryptographic protocols allow to process such sensitive data in a provably secure way. Until today, the design and implementation of such protocols, efficient enough to be used in practical applications, is a challenging and error-prone task even for experts in the field. To make such protocols widely accessible to non-expert users, tools are needed that automatically generate secure and efficient protocols from high-level specifications.

The Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO) uses methods from applied cryptography and algorithm engineering to develop protocols and tools for efficiently protecting sensitive data in various application scenarios.

Latest News

• Open Research Assistant Position

  Techniques for Protecting Privacy in Applications

  The Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO) at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt is offering position for a

  Research Assistant (Doctoral Researcher/PhD Student) in “Techniques for Protecting Privacy in Applications”

  with the goal to further develop our expertise in the area of engineering cryptographic protocols that are scalable to real-world problem sizes. go

• Open Hiwi Position

  Implementing Efficient Secure Computation

  We are offering a Hiwi position. The number of working hours is flexible and can be up to 82 hours per month starting as soon as possible. go

• 2019/05/18

  Daniel Demmler won the Excellent Dissertation Price 2018 from Friends of TU Darmstadt

  On 16.05.2019, Daniel Demmler won the price of the Association of Friends of TU Darmstadt “for excellent scientific work for the best dissertation in the area of computer science 2018” for his dissertation “Towards Practical Privacy-Preserving Protocols”. go

• 2019/05/16

  Paper accepted at USENIX Security 2019

  

  “Mobile Private Contact Discovery at Scale” by Daniel Kales (TU Graz), Christian Rechberger (TU Graz), Matthias Senker (TU Darmstadt), Thomas Schneider (TU Darmstadt), and Christian Weinert (TU Darmstadt) was accepted at USENIX Security 2019. PDF.

• 2019/05/13

  PC member of NDSS 2020

  

  Thomas Schneider is program committee member of the 27. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'20).

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