Outreach

The ENCRYPTO group conducts research with real-world impact that is also frequently noted by the press. Below, we list important instances of press coverage and educational resources of our research.

PrivateDrop in the News

Our research on breaking and fixing Apple AirDrop has received a lot of attention in the press. You can find a collection of news features here. More information about PrivateDrop can be found here.

Contact Discovery in the News

Our research on contact discovery has received a lot of attention in the press. You can find a collection of news features here. More information about contact discovery can be found here.

Explanatory Video on Private Set Intersection (PSI)

This video explains private set intersection (PSI) and shows its applications to privacy-preserving mobile contact discovery.

Find out more about our ongoing PSI research.

Explanatory Video on VoiceGuard

This video explains VoiceGuard, which provided secure and private speech processing.

Find out more about our ongoing research on privacy-preserving applications.

Developing a Compiler for Privacy-Preserving Protocols

This video explains our development of a compiler for privacy-preserving protocols.

Find out more about our ongoing research of tools for multi-party computation.

hr-info Podcast on Privacy-Preserving Face Recognition.

Why do we need and how to enable privacy-preserving face recognition? Thomas Schneider gives an answer in this hr-info podcast (in German, starting at 20:40).

Find out more about our ongoing research on privacy-preserving applications.

ERC Starting Grant PSOTI Press Releases

Thomas Schneider was awarded with an ERC Starting Grant 2019 for the project “Privacy-preserving Services On The Internet (PSOTI)”. You can find the official press release by the European Research Council (ERC) here and the press release by TU Darmstadt is available here.

Find out more about our project “Privacy-preserving Services On The Internet (PSOTI)”.

Private Set Intersection at CeBIT 2015

We presented our research results on private set intersection (PSI) at the booth of the BMBF (German Federal Ministry of Education and Research) at CeBIT, the world's largest and most international computer expo. You can view our accompanying flyer here (opens in new tab).

Find out more about our ongoing PSI research.