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CAST-Förderpreis IT-Sicherheit 2020 goes to ATHENE researcher
Award for Daniel Günther
Daniel Günther from the TU Darmstadt won the first prize of the CAST-Förderpreis IT-Sicherheit in the category "Best Master Thesis" for his master thesis "Optimizing Private Information Retrieval for Compromised Credential Checking". He prevailed among the four finalists who presented their work to a jury of representatives from industry and research.
Daniel Günther works in the team of the Cryptography and Privacy Engineering Group (ENCRYPTO) led by ATHENE researcher Prof. Thomas Schneider. In ATHENE he is involved in the research area Future Data Economy and Society (FANCY), which is concerned with the development of fair data-based business models based on privacy technologies.
CAST e.V. has been supporting young IT security researchers in Germany for years with the CAST Förderpreis IT-Sicherheit.
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