Three posters by the ENCRYPTO group were accepted at the CCS 2022 poster session as well as two papers at the WPES workshop associated with CCS 2022.

“PEA: Practical private epistasis analysis using MPC” by Kay Hamacher, Tobias Kussel, Thomas Schneider, and Oleksandr Tkachenko was accepted at ESORICS'22.

“Contact discovery in mobile messengers: Low-cost attacks, quantitative analyses, and efficient mitigations” by Christoph Hagen, Christian Weinert, Christoph Sendner, Alexandra Dmitrienko, and Thomas Schneider was accepted at TOPS.

Oleksandr Tkachenko successfully defended his dissertation “Towards Deployable MPC: Flexible and Efficient Tools for Real-World Applications” on Thr., 23rd June 2022.

The ENCRYPTO group was back at TPMPC 2022 in Aarhus, Denmark.

Christian Weinert won a price for excellent dissertations of the Association of Friends of TU Darmstadt.

“GPU-accelerated PIR with client-independent preprocessing for large-scale applications” by Daniel Günther, Maurice Heymann, Benny Pinkas, and Thomas Schneider was accepted at USENIX Security'22.

Christian Weinert is one of four finalists in the CAST/GI IT-Security PhD Thesis Award 2022.

Former ENCRYPTO PhD student Christian Weinert became Lecturer in Information Security.

“SoK: Cryptanalysis of encrypted search with LEAKER – a framework for LEakage AttacK Evaluation on Real-world data” by Seny Kamara, Abdelkarim Kati, Tarik Moataz, Thomas Schneider, Amos Treiber, and Michael Yonli was accepted at EuroS&P'22.