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”.

The thesis, which was jointly supervised by Thomas Schneider and Christian Weinert, contributed significantly to our publication “Mobile Private Contact Discovery at Scale” that appears at USENIX Security'19.