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MPI-SP is one of the founding members of Pavona - a new open-source silicon ecosystem hosted by GlobalPlatform that brings together a community of industry leaders and major academic institutions more

Scientists at MPI-SP published 12 research articles at one of the top security conferences in the world. The 47^th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy will take place this week in San Francisco. more

Meeyoung (Mia) Cha, Scientific Director at Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), was recognized for her pioneering work on tackling global societal challenges more

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Carmela Troncoso on surveillance technology used in the US and Germany more

Everything is up and running as usual: banking apps, Wi-Fi, charging stations for electric cars. But what would happen if a quantum computer suddenly rendered all encryption methods commonly used today ineffective? A research alliance composed of Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences (h_da), Hochschule RheinMain – University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSRM) and the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) is working on ways to prevent this – and rethinking cryptography in the process. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding their project with around €750,000. more

The CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems takes place next week in Barcelona. Scientists from MPI-SP will share results from nine different studies. Two publications received Best Paper Awards and Best Paper Honorable Mention Awards, respectively. more