In recent years, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) came into being. IIoT connects
sensors, industrial equipment, products, and staff in the factory, enabling context-awareness …

When DNS was created, nobody expected that it would have become the base for the digital
economy and a prime target for cybercriminals. And nobody expected that one main asset of …

Motivated by recent revelations of widespread state surveillance of personal communication,
many solutions now claim to offer secure and private messaging. This includes both a large …

Decentralized systems are a subset of distributed systems where multiple authorities control
different components and no authority is fully trusted by all. This implies that any component …

Identity systems are fundamental to any network, just as a language is shaped by a
consistent set of symbols and their interpretation. A network is defined by a consistent set of …

With WhatsApp's adoption of the Signal Protocol as its default, end-to-end encryption by the
masses happened almost overnight. Unlike iMessage, WhatsApp notifies users that …

In the wake of recent revelations of mass government surveillance, secure messaging
protocols have come under renewed scrutiny. A widespread weakness of existing solutions …

In this paper we present reclaimID: An architecture that allows users to reclaim their digital
identities by securely sharing identity attributes without the need for a centralised service …

The current landscape of the core Internet technologies shows considerable centralisation
with the big tech companies controlling the vast majority of traffic and services. This situation …

In this paper we present ZKlaims: a system that allows users to present attribute-based
credentials in a privacy-preserving way. We achieve a zero-knowledge property on the basis …