Category Archives: Blog

PANORAMIX RELEASES PROJECT KATZENPOST

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

Read More

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

Read More

PANORAMIX sponsors ROUNDTABLE ON E-VOTING FOR PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING

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

Read More

PANORAMIX at SIGIR ’18

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

Read More

Panoramix at PKC 2018

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

Read More

Panoramix Panel at CPDP 2018

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

Read More

Katzenpost Hackathon December 2017

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

Read More

Panoramix at WPES (30 Oct 2017) and ACM CCS (30 Oct – 3 Nov 2017)

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

Read More