The paper “WW-FL: Secure and Private Large-Scale Federated Learning” by Felix Marx, Thomas Schneider, Ajith Suresh, Tobias Wehrle, Christian Weinert, and Hossein Yalame was accepted at the annual Conference on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES 2026).

Thomas Schneider will give an invited talk on “(Re)search for a Private Tomorrow: Highlights in MPC” at the Internet Privacy Engineering Network (IPEN) Event on "Secure Multi-Party Computation” (MPC).

Protik Kumar Paul is a program committee member of the 24th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS 2026).

Discussion on the status and future of quantum key distribution and classical post-quantum cryptography

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.