CROSSING researchers join open letter

On September 12, the member states of the European Union will once again discuss the proposed regulation to combat child sexual abuse online, commonly referred to as chat control. Researchers from the Collaborative Research Center CROSSING have a clear message: the planned monitoring mechanisms is dangerous and could easily be bypassed , while it endangers the privacy of everyone. They have joined an open letter addressed to members of the European Parliament and the European Council. A Council vote is scheduled for mid-October.

Thomas Schneider is a program committee member of the top conference 34. USENIX Security Symposium.

Andreas Brüggemann, Thomas Schneider and Kasra EdalatNejad gave talks at the Dagstuhl Seminar “Building Privacy-Preserving Technologies of Societal Impact” July 27 – August 1, 2025.

The paper “MultiCent: Secure and Scalable Computation of Centrality Measures on Multilayer Graphs” by Andreas Brüggemann, Nishat Koti, Varsha Bhat Kukkala, and Thomas Schneider was accepted at the 25th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2025).

ENCRYPTO alumnus Hossein Yalame is among the three finalists for the CAST/GI Dissertation Award 2025.

Thomas Schneider will give an invited talk on “Private Machine Learning via Multi-Party Computation” at the CASA RC Trust Summer School 2025 focusing on Cyber and Societal Security in the AI Era on June 23-27, 2025 at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Thomas Schneider gave an invited talk on "Advanced Cryptography for Data Privacy” at the Workshop “Data Privacy in the Digital Age” on March 13+14, 2025 at LMU Munich.

On Thursday, January 16, 2025 Daniel Günther successfully defended his dissertation “Towards Practical Secure Computation: Exploring Applicability and Function Privacy Trade-offs”.