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
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
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
Over the past few years the UCL Information Security research group [0] has built a lot of expertise on decentralization and privacy, including through involvement in key projects like the EU-funded projects Panoramix [1], Nextleap [2] and our EPSRC project on “Strengthening Anonymity”. In that context we hosted the first “Carnival of Decentralization and Privacy”
Panoramix is pleased to announce a new partner to the consortium: The Center for the Cultivation of Technology (CCT) The Center for the Cultivation of Technology will be responsible for the integration of the PANORAMIX mix-net technology into a development branch of a widely used open source mobile messaging application (K-9 Mail) and will be
Aggelos Kiayias is one of the invited speakers at the Smart Contracts Day in Athens on the 31st of March 2017. The Smart Contracts Day will consist of talks on the topic of Information, Privacy and Smart Contracts in the interdisciplinary field merging Cryptography and Law. Aggelos’ talk at 10am is titled “Cryptography and Law,
In this exciting face-to-face meeting organized by Greenhost, Panoramix members will meet with the long-standing Tor network to discuss lessons learned by Tor in practical development of anonymity systems, as well as discuss with various developers (over 50 will be attending the Tor f2f as a whole) interested in mix networking. Afterwards, Panoramix members will
The German SAP development community came together on January 11 and 12 in Karlsruhe for the annual SAP® Development Kick-Off Meeting, the first and largest event of the series to be held in 14 SAP Labs around the globe in the first quarter of 2017. The event in Karlsruhe attracted over 6,200 employees, and the
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
On Tuesday 28th, February, 2017, Panoramix coordinator Aggelos Kiayias presented “End-to-end verifiable elections” during the Security Seminar at Newcastle University, School of Computing Science. Abstract of the talk: How can we be capable to verify the tally of an election procedure that is produced digitally? Verifiability in the context of electronic voting is a property that has been