Former ENCRYPTO PhD student Michael Zohner became Professor for IT-Security.

“SoK: Efficient privacy-preserving clustering” by Aditya Hegde, Helen Möllering, Thomas Schneider, and Hossein Yalame was accepted at PoPETs'21.

Thomas Schneider was interviewed about contact tracing with the Luca app.

Our USENIX Security'21 paper “PrivateDrop: Practical Privacy-Preserving Authentication for Apple AirDrop” is featured in the news!

Two papers by the ENCRYPTO team were accepted at SECRYPT'21.

“LLVM-based circuit compilation for practical secure computation” by Tim Heldmann, Thomas Schneider, Oleksandr Tkachenko, Christian Weinert, and Hossein Yalame was accepted at ACNS'21.

“BaFFLe: Backdoor detection via feedback-based federated learning” by Sébastien Andreina, Giorgia Azzurra Marson, Helen Möllering, and Ghassan Karame was accepted at ICDCS'21.

“Privacy-preserving density-based clustering” by Beyza Bozdemir, Sébastien Canard, Orhan Ermis, Helen Möllering, Melek Önen, and Thomas Schneider was accepted at ASIACCS'21.

With “ContactGuard”, Christian Weinert, Thomas Schneider, and Matthias Senker together with Daniel Kales and Christian Rechberger from TU Graz won the second prize in the 8. German IT-Security Award 2020.

“PrivateDrop: Practical privacy-preserving authentication for Apple AirDrop” by Alexander Heinrich, Matthias Hollick, Thomas Schneider, Milan Stute, and Christian Weinert was accepted at USENIX Security'21.