She did it! 🥳 Congratulations to Helen (Helen Möllering) for successfully defending her PhD last Friday! We are very proud of her and wish all the best for her next steps in life 💙

Congratulations to Laura Hetz Laura for winning 1. prize for Master theses in IT-security by @castforum. Main advisor of thesis "Communication-Efficient Privacy-Preserving Mobile Contact Discovery" ENCRYPTO Computer Science, TU Darmstadt TU Darmstadt was Christian Weinert. Published@ESORICS'23

I'm very honored to be awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grant for my project Tools for Protecting Data and Function Privacy (PRIVTOOLS). Thanks for great support to ENCRYPTO, Cybersecurity | TU Darmstadt, Computer Science, TU Darmstadt & TU Darmstadt! Details: encrypto.de/PRIVTOOLS

The European Research Council European Research Council (ERC) is funding Professor Thomas Schneider Thomas Schneider and his project PRIVTOOLS. The aim of the project is to develop tools for the automatic generation of software that protects personal data and functions. tu-darmstadt.de/universitaet/a…

Teaching is our passion 🤩 The student association of computer science (Fachschaft Informatik TU Darmstadt) awarded us with a prize for the best exercise in summer semester 2023 for our course „Cryptographic Protocols“. Thanks a lot to the students for their positive evaluation and the cute plushie! 🐧

Matthew Green is on BlueSky Sad to see this exploited now. Our paper contains an efficient protocol & open source implementation to fix this vulnerability via #PSI. We‘d be happy to see/help Apple integrate this. privatedrop.github.io Christian Weinert ENCRYPTO @[email protected] Cybersecurity | TU Darmstadt Computer Science, TU Darmstadt

Reposting this because I think it’s important. Using a known flaw (unfixed by Apple since 2019), Chinese state authorities have developed a system to trace the sender of AirDrop files. This was apparently a popular way to evade censorship in China, now it’s under threat.

In 2019, we reported several privacy vulnerabilities in the AirDrop protocol to Apple. They remained unfixed. Fast-forward to 2024, Chinese forensic experts actively exploit this to identify senders of "inappropriate information". More details on privatedrop.github.io.

The ENCRYPTO TU Darmstadt is organizing #TPMPC 2024 in Darmstadt! Please consider submitting your best works and kindly encourage your students to submit. We are looking forward to your participation and interesting talks! See multipartycomputation.com/tpmpc-2024

In this paper we show how to use high-level synthesis tools to mitigate cache side-channels. Joint work in collaborative research center #CROSSING with Heiko Mantel & Tim Weißmantel (MAIS group Computer Science, TU Darmstadt) and @HYalame, Joachim Schmidt & Maximilian Stillger (ENCRYPTO)

Congrats to all my co-authors on getting the runner-up distinguished paper award at SaTML'24 w. our exciting industry collaboration with VMware & Aptos Labs: Yaniv Ben-Itzhak, Helen Möllering, Benny Pinkas, Ajith | അജിത്ത്, Alex Tkachenko, Shay Vargaftik, Christian Weinert, @HYalame, Avishay Yanai

Registration for TPMPC'24 organized by ENCRYPTO is open until May 12. Looking forward to welcome you in Darmstadt!

Our new paper shows how to prove in a privacy-preserving way that an ML model was properly trained on proper data that fulfills certain properties. Great collaboration between N. Asokan's Secure Systems Group CrySP University of Waterloo @UWaterloo and ENCRYPTO Computer Science, TU Darmstadt TU Darmstadt

We also introduce the notion of "property attestation" (adapted from two-decade-old trusted/confidential computing research!) for ML models, useful for demonstrating #regulatory #compliance of #ArtificialIntelligence models Vasisht Duddu Thomas Schneider Nora Khayata @HYalame

🎉Four ENCRYPTO papers at IEEE S&P’24 🎉 The following four papers by members of the ENCRYPTO group will be presented at the top conference IEEE S&P’24 next week in San Francisco:

Registration deadline for #TPMPC at TU Darmstadt in the first week of June was extended to May 19. A few seats are still available, so register soon.

#TPMPC’24 was a blast! We organized the workshop from June 3-6 TU Darmstadt with 161 participants from 23 countries and 81 organizations. The program consisted of 12 invited talks, 25 contributed talks, diversity panel, industry exhibition, and rump session. 📸 by Daniela Fleckenstein

Thanks a lot Marcel Keller for visiting ENCRYPTO at Computer Science, TU Darmstadt, your very inspiring presentation and the conversations we had. You are always welcome!