Christian Weinert
Special guest
Christian Weinert is a final-year PhD student at the Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO) at TU Darmstadt, Germany. His research focuses mainly on the design, implementation, and evaluation of practical private set intersection protocols (PSI) for privacy-preserving applications. For his works on mobile private contact discovery, he received the German IT-Security Award 2020.
Christian Weinert has been a guest on 1 episode.
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Episode 16: Contact Discovery in Mobile Messengers!
May 24th, 2021 | 46 mins 44 secs
secure messaging
Do we really need to rely on sharing every phone number on our phone in order for mobile messengers to be usable? What are the privacy risks, and do better cryptographic alternatives exist for managing that data? Joining us are researchers looking exactly into this problem, who will tell us more about their interesting results.