During the visit of Hessian Parliament Members Lucas Schmitz and Peter Franz to TU Darmstadt represented by president Tanja Brühl and chancellor Martin Lommel, researchers Thomas Schneider, Kasra EdalatNejat and Gowri Chandran from the ENCRYPTO Group were happy to showcase two of our interdisciplinary research highlights:

1) “Data Protection Law and Multi-Party Computation: Applications to Information Exchange Between Law Enforcement Agencies” by Amos Treiber, Dirk Müllmann, Thomas Schneider, Indra Spiecker, published at WPES'22.

In this interdisciplinary collaboration with law experts from Indra Spiecker's group at Goethe University Frankfurt, we showed how data can be privately exchanged among law enforcement agencies.

2) ”Encrypted MultiChannel Communication (EMC2): Johnny Should Use Secret Sharing” by Gowri R Chandran, Kilian Demuth, Kasra EdalatNejad, Sebastian Linsner, Christian Reuter, Thomas Schneider, published at WPES'24.

In this interdisciplinary collaboration with usability experts from PEASEC, we demonstrated how to protect users' fundamental right to privacy by allowing them to privately communicate via multiple communication channels.

Our research is generously funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the RTG Privacy & Trust and the CRC CROSSING, and by the European Research Council (ERC) via the ERC Starting Grant PSOTI.