The paper “When Trying to Catch Cheaters Breaks the MPC: Breaking and Fixing Delayed Consistency Checks in Trident, Fantastic Four, SWIFT, and Quad” by Andreas Brüggemann and Thomas Schneider was accepted at the International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques (Eurocrypt 2026).

Thomas Schneider is a program committee member of the 32nd ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’26) in the Privacy and Anonymity track.

The ENCRYPTO group was part of the Real World MPC (RWMPC 2026) Workshop last Saturday. Jan Filipp gave a presentation and Thomas Schneider took part in the closing panel.

At the 25th CAST Awards in IT-Security, Maximilian Stillger received the second place prize in the category master's theses.

Since 2026, the ENCRYPTO Group has two new projects in the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity ATHENE.

On Friday, November 28, 2025 Gowri R Chandran successfully completed her PhD at the ENCRYPTO group with her dissertation: “Inputs, Outputs, and the Computations in Between: Leakage-Resilient Privacy-Preserving Protocols” Congratulations and we wish you all the best for you future endeavors!

Kasra EdalatNejad is a program committee member of the the 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2026).

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 has given 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).