Privacy-Oriented Cryptography (Dagstuhl Seminar 12381)

This report documents the program of the Dagstuhl Seminar 12381 "Privacy-Oriented Cryptography", which took place at Schloss Dagstuhl in September 16-21, 2012. Being the first Dagstuhl seminar that explicitly aimed to combine cryptography and privacy research communities, it attracted a high number of participants, many of whom were new to Dagstuhl. In total, the seminar was attended by 39 international researchers, working in different areas of cryptography and privacy, from academia, industry, and governmental organizations. The seminar included many interactive talks on novel, so-far unpublished results, aiming at the design, analysis, and practical deployment of cryptographic mechanisms for protecting privacy of users and data. The seminar featured two panel discussions to address various approaches towards provable privacy and different challenges but also success stories for practical deployment of existing cryptographic privacy-oriented techniques.