News from the ENCRYPTO Group

• 2018/10/29

  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

• 2017/08/28

  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

• 2018/11/29

  Daniel Günther won First Prize at CAST IT Security Award 2018

  Daniel Günther with his work on “Valiant’s Universal Circuit – Towards a Modular Construction and Implementation” won the first prize among three finalists in the category “Best Bachelor Thesis” at the CAST IT Security Award 2018. go

• 2018/11/19

  New group name: Cryptography and Privacy Engineering (ENCRYPTO)

  After exactly seven years of success under the name “Engineering Cryptographic Protocols (ENCRYPTO)”, we are happy that our group is now officially called “Cryptography and Privacy Engineering (ENCRYPTO)”. go

• 2018/11/02

  Paper accepted for PoPETs 2019(2)

  The paper “SoK: Modular and efficient private decision tree evaluation” by Ágnes Kiss, Masoud Naderpour, Jian Liu, N. Asokan, and Thomas Schneider was accepted for the Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETs) 2019(2).

• 2018/07/24

  Paper accepted at ACM CCS 2018

  

  “HyCC: Compilation of hybrid protocols for practical secure computation” by Niklas Büscher, Daniel Demmler, Stefan Katzenbeisser, David Kretzmer, and Thomas Schneider was accepted at ACM CCS 2018.

• 2018/07/01

  Paper accepted at CANS 2018

  “Faster privacy-preserving location proximity schemes” by Kimmo Järvinen, Ágnes Kiss, Thomas Schneider, Oleksandr Tkachenko, and Zheng Yang was accepted at CANS 2018.

• 2018/06/06

  Paper accepted at INTERSPEECH 2018

  “VoiceGuard: Secure and private speech processing” by Ferdinand Brasser, Tommaso Frassetto, Korbinian Riedhammer, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Thomas Schneider, and Christian Weinert was accepted at INTERSPEECH 2018. go

• 2018/04/16

  Ágnes Kiss invited to Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2018

  Ágnes Kiss from the ENCRYPTO group has been invited as an outstanding young researcher to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2018. go