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Final Review Meeting in Brussels

With the end of October the official project lifetime of MATTHEW came to its end. The MATTHEW consortium reached the set objectives and submitted all Deliverables and Milestones in time. Additionally, an outstanding number of scientific publications present the MATTHEW project outcomes. (Find them openly accessible: https://matthew-project.eu/project-outcome)

On 23^rd November 2016 the project final review meeting took place at the EC premises in Brussels. After a general introduction to the project and the results in the technical work packages, a public session was scheduled. The consortium used this opportunity to show the demonstrators of the 3 Use Cases:

• Contactless Payment with SiP for Wearables + nanoSIM Integration of MATTHEW components
• Demo on Access Control System with SIM + SAM based on CIPURSE protocol (4-eyes scenario)
• Anonymous Ticketing with ABCs on mobile platforms + Protocol Demo with Secure Elements

The project external visitors were very interested and and engaged in a vivid discussion on the MATTHEW use cases. After the final session with the reviewers and the project officer, all Deliverables and Reports were accepted and the progress impressed the experts in the review panel.

The excellent outcomes of MATTHEW will enable further cooperation within the consortium partners and the technological developments will be included into several innovations.

The MATTHEW consortium met for a technical meeting on 27^th and 28^th of September in Regensburg (Germany) at the premises of Infineon Germany. It was the last technical meeting for the MATTHEW partners and the chance to prepare for the final review meeting. The aim of the technical meeting was a final alignment between the partners for the upcoming last deliverables and reports of the project.

Major focus was put on WP6 regarding the finalization and appropriate reporting of the evaluation and test results and on WP7 concerning dissemination and exploitation as well as the final project reporting. Additional discussions about ongoing issues and planning towards the project finalization took place.

Further, the meeting concentrated on the preparation of the final review meeting. The partners agreed on an agenda and relevant inputs and demonstrations for the final review meeting, which will take place on 23^rd November 2016 at the EC premises in Brussels. The consortium is looking forward to presenting the excellent results to the EC.

IAIK at Graz University of Technology released the source code of a cryptographic library suitable for pairing-based protocols. The library, written in C, implements bilinear pairings and the respective group operations over a 254-bit and a 160-bit Barreto-Naehrig elliptic curve.

Its configurability makes it perfectly suitable for optimization towards different architectures. However, the probably most interesting target platforms for the library comprise embedded microcontrollers as it is designed to yield a low memory footprint. Besides the basic group operations, the library comes with implementations of pairing-based identity-based encryption and group signature schemes.

For obtaining the source code and more information please click here.

We added a blog to our website in order to keep you updated about the MATTHEW project life, as a lot of progress has been made during the last 21 months of the MATTHEW project.

Looking back to the past 21 months, good collaboration between all 8 partners, deep and long technical discussions, successful submission of 7 Deliverables, 2 Milestones reached, several dissemination activities etc. come to my mind. We met several times in different European countries to encourage project work – like in Meudon (France) last February (see picture below).

Find further information on our Deliverables and Publications here.

We will keep you updated about ongoing work, publications and participation in events.