“PILOT: Practical Privacy-Preserving Indoor Localization using OuTsourcing” by Kimmo Järvinen, Helena Leppäkoski, Elena Simona Lohan, Philipp Richter, Thomas Schneider, Oleksandr Tkachenko, and Zheng Yang was accepted at EuroS&P'19.

“Efficient Circuit-based PSI with Linear Communication” by Benny Pinkas, Thomas Schneider, Oleksandr Tkachenko, and Avishay Yanai was accepted at EUROCRYPT'19.

Daniel Günther won the first Bachelor thesis prize at the CAST IT Security Award 2018.

After exactly seven years of success under the name “Engineering Cryptographic Protocols (ENCRYPTO)”, we are happy that our group is now officially called “Cryptography and Privacy Engineering (ENCRYPTO)”.

“SoK: Modular and efficient private decision tree evaluation” by Ágnes Kiss, Masoud Naderpour, Jian Liu, N. Asokan, and Thomas Schneider was accepted at PoPETs'19(2).

“HyCC: Compilation of hybrid protocols for practical secure computation” by Niklas Büscher, Daniel Demmler, Stefan Katzenbeisser, David Kretzmer, and Thomas Schneider was accepted at CCS'18.

“Faster privacy-preserving location proximity schemes” by Kimmo Järvinen, Ágnes Kiss, Thomas Schneider, Oleksandr Tkachenko, and Zheng Yang was accepted at CANS'18.

“VoiceGuard: Secure and Private Speech Processing” by Ferdinand Brasser, Tommaso Frassetto, Korbinian Riedhammer, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Thomas Schneider, and Christian Weinert was accepted at INTERSPEECH'18.

Ágnes Kiss from the ENCRYPTO group has been invited as an outstanding young researcher to the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2018.

Thomas Schneider is program committee member of CANS'18.