Second Prize in German IT-Security Award 2020
2021/02/12
With their submission “ContactGuard”, , Christian Weinert, and former ENCRYPTO master student Matthias Senker together with Thomas Schneider and Daniel Kales from TU Graz won the second prize in the Christian Rechberger (60,000 EUR) among 46 submissions. 8. German IT-Security Award 2020
This award is given every two years by the for outstanding IT security innovations of great practical and market relevance. It is one of the most highly endowed awards in Germany. Horst Görtz foundation
ContactGuard enables practical privacy-preserving contact discovery in mobile messengers based on the paper (opens in new tab) published at “Mobile Private Contact Discovery at Scale”. More information available at USENIX Security'19. https://contact-discovery.github.io/
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