Daniel Demmler won the excellent dissertation price of the Association of Friends of TU Darmstadt.

“Mobile Private Contact Discovery at Scale” by Daniel Kales, Christian Rechberger, Thomas Schneider, Matthias Senker, and Christian Weinert was accepted at USENIX Security 2019.

Thomas Schneider is program committee member of NDSS'20.

Ágnes Kiss and Thomas Schneider are program committee members of the PPML – CCS'19 Workshop.

Thomas Schneider will give an invited talk on “Private Function Evaluation – From Functions to Data to Code” at TPMPC'19

“EPISODE: Efficient Privacy-PreservIng Similar Sequence Queries on Outsourced Genomic DatabasEs” by Thomas Schneider and Oleksandr Tkachenko was accepted at ASIACCS'19.

“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)”.