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This week the MATTHEW consortium met for the first time in 2016 to discuss technical issues,  at the premises of AMS in Unterpremstätten, Austria. The meeting was split into two days, whereas the first day was focusing on work performed since the last technical meeting. Therefore, each partner presented an update of their ongoing work as well as an outlook of the work plans for the upcoming weeks and months. As during the next months, a number of deliverables are due, the consortium fixed a roadmap in order to ensure the quality as well as a timely submission of the documents.

The second day was dedicated to technical discussions, which took place in a workshop-like atmosphere. These discussions focused on the integration and demonstration of the three MATTHEW use cases:

• Advanced Mobile Banking Application
• Advanced Access Control Application
• Advanced Ticketing Application

The workshop participants informed afterwards the entire consortium about the discussed topics and how they will tackle upcoming challenges.

After two days of fruitful discussions it can be said that the meeting was a success as all agenda points could be addressed and the roadmap for the last months of the MATTHEW project was fixed.

With the end of October, the 2nd project year of MATTHEW comes to its end. In the second year of MATTHEW we were concerned about four major technical developments:

● system security by utilizing ABCs, PUFs and multiple SEs
● antenna design and the corresponding hardware integration
● integration of a first nanoSIM prototype
● application development for the different use cases.

Besides these technical tracks, the MATTHEW consortium focused also on standardization as well as dissemination activities. As you see, we covered lots of challenging topics, had intensive technical discussions during several meetings and telephone conferences and in this way, we managed to make a big step towards the planned innovational outcome. The following points summarize the work of our successful 2nd project year:

☑ made excellent progress towards technical objectives
☑ released 3 source code libraries
☑ successfully submitted 5 Deliverables
☑ represented MATTHEW at well-known occasions like 8th RFID Symposium, CSP Innovation Forum, ISO14443 Task     Force Meetings
☑ published 6 high-quality scientific papers
☑ became part of the EU Yearbook
☑ made our project website more lively including a project blog as well as social media

We are now looking forward to present our project achievements of year 2 to the European Commission and provide you soon with our public Deliverables on the website. For now, find out more about MATTHEW outcomes within the published papers and source code libraries here.

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.

This week the MATTHEW consortium met at Gemalto’s premises in Meudon, France for a general assembly as well as a technical meeting. The meeting was split into two days where the first day was focusing on updates from the single work packages as well as an alignment between the partners for the upcoming tasks and deliverables. Furthermore, IAIK announced during the meeting the release of their new library for pairing-based protocols.

The second day was totally dedicated to the upcoming second review meeting, which will take place on November 26^th 2015 in Brussels.

After two days of intense and long discussions it can be said that the meeting was a total success as all agenda points were met.

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.