Author Archives: Thomas Zacharias

ROUND TABLE ON ELECTRONIC VOTING FOR PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING

12 June 2018 | 13:00-16:30 | Appleton Tower Room 8.02, University of Edinburgh Attendees Martin Brown, Head of Business Development, Improvement Service Prof. Peter Buneman, Professor, University of Edinburgh Prof. Bill Buchanan, Professor of Computing, Edinburgh Napier University Andrew Campbell, Project Manager, myaccount, Improvement Service Mike Crockart, Delivery Lead, Online Identity Assurance Team, Scottish Government

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MCMix anonymous messaging system to be presented in USENIX Security conference

Nikos Alexopoulos (TU Damstadt) and Thomas Zacharias  will present their joint work with PANORAMIX coordinator Aggelos Kiayias and Riivo Talviste (Cyberentica AS) titled “MCMix: Anonymous Messaging via Secure Multiparty Computation”  at the USENIX Security conference that will be held on 16-18 August 2017, Vancouver, Canada. Abstract: We present ‘MCMix’, an anonymous messaging system that completely hides communication metadata and

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New publication to be presented in PKC 2017 Conference

Thomas Zacharias will present his joint work with PANORAMIX coordinator Aggelos Kiayias and Bingsheng Zhang (Lancaster University) titled “Ceremonies for End-to-end Verifiable Elections”  at the PKC conference that will be held on March 28-31 2017, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Abstract: State-of-the-art e-voting systems rely on voters to perform certain actions to ensure that the election authorities are

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New publication about privacy-preserving interactive proofs

Foteini Baldimtsi, Aggelos Kiayias,  Thomas Zacharias and Bingsheng Zhang: “Indistinguishable Proofs of Work or Knowledge“. Indistinguishable Proofs of Work or Knowledge (PoWorKs) constitute a novel class of interactive protocols where a prover can convince a verifier that she has either performed work or that she possesses knowledge of a witness to a public statement without the verifier

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New publication from PANORAMIX members to appear in ASIACRYPT 2016

The PANORAMIX members Aggelos Kiayias and Thomas Zacharias in joint work with Foteini Baldimtsi and Bingsheng Zhang will present their work “Indistinguishable Proofs of Work or Knowledge”  (PoWorKs) at the ASIACRYPT conference that will be held in December 4-8 2016, Hanoi, Vietnam. PoWorKs constitute a novel class of interactive protocols where a prover can convince a

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