Former ENCRYPTO PhD student Daniel Demmler is in the final round of the CAST/GI PhD thesis award for IT-Security 2020.

“Small Constant Mean-Error Imprecise Adder/Multiplier for Efficient VLSI Implementation of MAC-based Applications” by Mohammad Javadi, Hossein Yalame, and Hamid Reza Mahdiani was accepted at Transactions on Computers .

“CryptoSPN: Privacy-preserving Sum-Product Network Inference” by Amos Treiber, Alejandro Molina, Christian Weinert, Thomas Schneider, and Kristian Kersting was accepted at ECAI'20.

“Efficient and Scalable Universal Circuits” by Masaud Y. Alhassan, Daniel Günther, Ágnes Kiss, and Thomas Schneider was accepted at Journal of Cryptology.

The ENCRYPTO group was awarded by Intel Corporation for our research in the area of “Secure and Privacy Preserving AI Frameworks and Run-Times for Data Scientists and Service Providers”.

“Privacy-preserving PLDA speaker verification using outsourced secure computation” by Amos Treiber, Andreas Nautsch, Jascha Kolberg, Thomas Schneider, and Christoph Busch was accepted at Speech Communication.

Ágnes Kiss from the ENCRYPTO Group together with Ghada Dessouky,Tommaso Frasetto, Giulia Traverso, and Shaza Zeitouni won the CROSSING Collaboration Award 2019.

Thomas Schneider was awarded with an ERC Starting Grant 2019 for the project Privacy-preserving Services On The Internet (PSOTI).

“A Comment on Privacy-Preserving Scalar Product Protocols as proposed in 'SPOC'” by Thomas Schneider and Amos Treiber was accepted at IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

One poster by the ENCRYPTO group was accepted at the CCS 2019 poster session as well as three Papers at the CCS 2019 associated workshops CCSW, WPES, and PPML.