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
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
PANORAMIX successfully demonstrated its core technology at the 10th International Conference on Computers, Privacy & Data Protection (CPDP) in Brussels on the 26th of January 2017. The demo consisted of an educational video (view here) –shown on a large TV screen– explaining the overarching idea of PANORAMIX and its applications. In addition, a private anonymized chat
Panoramix coordinator Aggelos Kiayias is one of the speakers at the Cryptocurrencies and Beyond workshop which is taking place at the Alan Turing Institute at the British Library on November 1st, 2016. Aggelos will present “Secure Decentralized Blockchains without Proofs of Work” ongoing work of the Panoramix consortium and take part in the discussion what Blockchain technology might mean for UK
Panoramix coordinator Aggelos Kiayias discusses the science of the blockchain and privacy aspects pointing to the ongoing work of the Panoramix consortium. Audience includes many key IT industry actors in Scotland. https://events.scottish-enterprise.com/events/ClientApps/Silverbear.Web.EDMS/public/default.aspx?tabid=37&id=301258&orgId=1
On June 20-24, EPFL in Lausanne hosted the “Summer Research Institute” (SURI), a summer school with many talks by leading scientists in computer security. SURI featured two talks by the Panoramix researchers. Aggelos Kiayias from the University of Edinburgh gave a talk on “Foundations of Blockchain Protocols” while Helger Lipmaa from the University of Tartu gave
Panoramix members coorganize and participate the IACR Summer School on blockchain technologies. Aggelos Kiayias, George Danezis and Harry Halpin are present from the project team.
The panoramix project steering committee will meet for a full day at the Saarbrucken congress hall on March 21st, 2016. The meeting will be collocated with the 1st IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EURO S&P 2016). https://www.ccsaar.de/Congresshalle/Anreise-Congresshalle
The United Kingdom has for some time taken a leading role in setting the agenda around information security public policy. The latest is the draft Investigatory Powers Bill, that is to regulate in the UK all interception of communications, meta-data access, and even hacking by Law Enforcement — domestic and international. Such regulations impact the
Members of the PANORAMIX consortium took part in high level conference in the European parliament about EU policy privacy. “Protecting online privacy by enhancing IT security and strengthening EU IT capabilities. ” http://www.stoa.europarl.europa.eu/stoa/cms/home/events/workshops/privacy