An alpha version of our mix network based on the Loopix design has been released! It is available to download from Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=horse.amazin.my.l10 The current playground demonstrates the use of a Katzenpost mixnet for e-mail: Users can register with our “playground providers”, and then use a local SMTP and POP3 proxy to send and receive messages with whichever mail client
ROUNDTABLE ON ELECTRONIC VOTING FOR PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING 12 June 2018 | 13:00-16:30 | Appleton Tower (Room 8.02), University of Edinburgh Purpose of the roundtable This roundtable/workshop aims to bring together colleagues who have an interest in democratic participation, such as participatory budgeting and other forms of citizen engagement, with colleagues who are working on technical
The PANORAMIX paper “SynTF: Synthetic and Differentially Private Term Frequency Vectors for Privacy-Preserving Text Mining”, which is joint work between Benjamin Weggenmann and Florian Kerschbaum, has been accepted at the 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR’18). Benjamin will present the paper at the conference which will take place
Panoramix presents “Bootstrapping the Blockchain, with Applications to Consensus and Fast PKI Setup” at the International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public Key Cryptography. Juan A. Garay, Aggelos Kiayias, Nikos Leonardos, Giorgos Panagiotakos Bitcoin’s security is based on the assumptions that the adversarial hashing power is less than 1/2 and that all parties pre-agree
PANORAMIX was one of 25 H2020 projects that took part in the H2020 Project Clustering Workshop in Athens on the 31st of January. The workshop was organised by ReCRED. The aim of the workshop was to create synergies with other H2020 projects in the field of privacy and security. Panos Louridas, from partner GRNET, attended on
PANORAMIX recently attended CPDP in Brussels for the second time. This time round instead of presenting the work of PANORAMIX in the form of a demo (CPDP2017 demo) we hosted a panel on “Anonymous Communications Infrastructures for the Protection of Metadata”. Participants: Chair Aggelos Kiayias, University of Edinburgh (UK) Moderator Claudia Diaz, KU Leuven (BE) Speakers Eleni
In December 2017, a joint coding meeting was held in Athens attended by PANORAMIX partners CCT, Greenhost and GRNET to work on the mix network infrastructure for e-mail. The objective of the meeting was to increase the productivity of the programming and co-ordination between partners in WP7, and GRNET attended the meeting to focus on the integration of
Four PANORAMIX papers were accepted at this year’s ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS). Two papers were presented at the pre-conference workshop WPES: 16th Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2017). “Mix-ORAM: Using delegate shuffles” Raphael R. Toledo, George Danezis, Isao Echizen Abstract: Oblivious RAM (ORAM) is a key technology for
Panoramix presents “Mix-nets are back” at the European Privacy and Data Protection Summit co-organised by H2020 TYPES project, one of the other EU projects on privacy innovation. “Mix-nets are back: configurable anonymity for messaging and voting” A mix-net is a network of servers that receives encrypted messages from senders, and delivers them to recipients with guaranteed
Summer schools at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland PANORAMIX was represented at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) by George Danezis and Aggelos Kiayias who both gave research talks at respectively the Summer Research Institute (SuRI) and the Swiss Blockchain Summer School in June 2017. The Summer Research Institute 2017 (14 – 20 June) is