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.

Watch the explanatory video on our security architecture “VoiceGuard” for secure and private speech processing.

On 28.06.2019, Matthias Senker won the price of the Association of Friends of TU Darmstadt “for the best thesis at the chair of Cryptography and Privacy Engineering (ENCRYPTO) 2018” for his master thesis “PSI Meets Signal: Integrating a Malicious-Secure Private Contact Discovery Solution in an Open-Source Instant Messaging Service”.

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“Privacy-Preserving Speaker Recognition with Cohort Score Normalisation” by Andreas Nautsch, Jose Patino, Amos Treiber, Themos Stafylakis, Petr Mizera, Massimiliano Todisco, Thomas Schneider, and Nicholas Evans was accepted at INTERSPEECH 2019.

“Preserving Privacy in Speaker and Speech Characterisation” by Andreas Nautsch, Abelino Jiménez, Amos Treiber, Jascha Kolberg, Catherine Jasserand, Els Kindt, Héctor Delgado, Massimiliano Todisco, Mohamed Amine Hmani, Aymen Mtibaa, Mohammed Ahmed Abdelraheem, Alberto Abad, Francisco Teixeira, Driss Matrouf, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Dijana Petrovska-Delacrétaz, Gérard Chollet, Nicholas Evans, Thomas Schneider, Jean-François Bonastre, Bhiksha Raj, Isabel Trancoso, and Christoph Busch was accepted at Computer Speech and Language.

Thomas Schneider is program committee member of ACM CCSW'19.