The ENCRYPTO group attended the 35. USENIX Security Symposium 2026 with two accepted papers. Furthermore, Thomas Schneider received a “Distinguished Reviewer Award” and Kasra EdelatNejad was honored with a “Distinguished Artifact Award”.

The accepted papers were:

Jannis Blüml, Moritz Huppert, Nora Khayata, Joachim Schmidt, and Thomas Schneider. SING: Improving the Efficiency of MPC Protocol Assignment using Graph Neural Networks. The paper also received “Artifacts Functional” and “Results Reproducible” Badges and was presented by Joachim Schmidt.

Kasra EdalatNejad, Sebastian Faust, Jonas Hofmann, Philipp-Florens Lehwalder, and Thomas Schneider. Do You Need a Receipt? Anonymous Credential Revocation at Continental Scale via Private Record Certification. The paper also received “Artifacts Functional” and “Results Reproducible” Badges and was presented by Jonas Hofmann.

The papers were in collaboration with several research groups at TU Darmstadt: Jannis Blüml from the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Group (AIML), Moritz Huppert from the Cryptography and Complexity Theory Group (Cryptoplexity), and Sebastian Faust, Jonas Hofmann, and Philipp-Florens Lehwalder from the Chair of Applied Cryptography (CAC).