Workshop Details

The constantly increasing volume of electronic interactions and sensitive information disseminated online raises privacy concerns and motivates the need for efficient privacy-oriented techniques. The aim of this "Privacy-Oriented Cryptography" seminar was to bring together (mainly, but not only) researchers working in different domains of cryptography and privacy. Although non-cryptographic measures can, at times, aid privacy (e.g., statistical or ad hoc obfuscation techniques) - cryptography, via its mathematical mechanisms and formal concepts, helps obtain novel and efficient privacy-enhancing solutions, achieving concrete and measurable privacy guarantees.

Since privacy is a very broad area, being explored not only by security and cryptography experts, this seminar focused on two domains: user privacy and data privacy, for which the benefit from using cryptographic techniques is especially significant. Seminar participants presented and discussed many novel privacy-oriented cryptographic algorithms and protocols that admit various fields of deployment for protecting privacy in a broad range of applications, involving possibly huge amounts of data (e.g., cloud computing) and many different users (e.g. online communities). The seminar further addressed the emerging research direction of provable privacy, by discussing various mechanisms and techniques for defining concrete privacy goals and enabling their formal analysis.

Additional information is available on the seminar's primary webpage at Schloss Dagstuhl.