2024-06-11 –, Room A
To synchronize their work in research and education, actors in these domains use more and more shared storage space such as Dropbox, or even better, collaborative office suite, to prepare syllabus, prepare exercise sheets, write articles or just exchange ideas. However, in these domains, people usually defer to known proprietary solutions such as Office 365 or Google Workspace.
However, as these solutions relies on US based service providers, they go against the “Schrems II” judgement of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), thus not fitting GDPR requirements for mandatory tools (as in education, where minors cannot legally express their consent).
It is therefore important to provide open source solutions, that can be deployed by governmental institutes to address this need in a user-friendly manner.
As a solution to this issue, we will show the collaborative office suite CryptPad that prioritizes protecting your data privacy (which can be important for research in progress), while staying accessible to most people, thus conciliating privacy and collaboration.
CryptPad is a web-based open-source end-to-end encrypted collaborative office suite, allowing its users to securely collaborate on multiple kinds of documents: spreadsheets, rich-text, diagrams… It also includes some tools to help collaboration in a broader sense such as right management, shared folders, team management, calendars, kanban, forms…
I’m an R&D Engineer at XWiki, working on the CryptPad project. However before that I was working in both research and education, having done a PhD in cryptology and more specifically in privacy-preserving provably-secure cryptographic constructions, as well as giving courses pertaining (or not) to this topic in different places.
From this experience, I want to improve CryptPad to fit the needs of both users who cares about their privacy as well as actors in the domain of research and education.