During his stay at KIT on March 11 and 12, the President of the Helmholtz Association, Professor Martin Keller, visited the Research Factory on the East Campus.
There, he met with Professor Jörn Müller-Quade, program speaker at KIT, topic speaker, and spokesperson of the KASTEL Security Research Labs. He learned about the future direction of the topic within the Helmholtz Association and, among other things, about the SECAIMED project.
SECAIMED is a joint initiative of KIT and the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). In a practical demonstration, Dr. Jeremias Mechler (Topic Engineering Secure Systems, KASTEL Security Research Labs) showed how the so called “cryptographic enclave” can be used to process confidential and sensitive data securely and in compliance with legal requirements—without enabling any insight into the data itself.
To illustrate this, he used an application scenario from medical image data processing. Using the Kaapana platform developed by DKFZ, a computation was executed on sensitive medical data, with the cryptographic enclave automatically integrated. Thanks to this integration, the process could be carried out transparently by the user without requiring additional prior knowledge.
Professor Martin Keller thus once again gained insights into scientific results and the possibilities for their practical application.
