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			<div class="l1">NEXT</div>
			<div class="l2">generation</div>
			<div class="l3">techno-social and</div>
			<div class="l4">Legal</div>
			<div class="l5">Encryption</div>
			<div class="l6">Access and</div>
			<div class="l7">Privacy</div>
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			<h2>In the wake of the Snowden revelations, public trust in the Internet has eroded.</h2>

			<p>NEXTLEAP aims to create, validate, and deploy communication and computation protocols that can serve as pillars for a secure, trust-worthy, annotable and privacy-respecting Internet that ensures citizens fundamental rights. For this purpose NEXTLEAP will develop an interdisciplinary internet science of decentralisation that provides the basis on which these protocols will be built.</p>

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	<h2>Why does it matter?</h2>

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			<h3>Francesca Musiani</h3>

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			<h3>George Danezis</h3>

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			<h3>Carmela Troncoso</h3>

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				<figcaption class="small figure-caption text-center">Holger Krekel, Georges Danezis, Bruno Blanchet, Francesca Musiani, Carmela Troncoso, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Marios Isaakidis and Harry Halpin (not the entire team).</figurecaption>
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			<h2>Meet the NEXTLEAP team</h2>

			<p>NEXTLEAP combines expertise from across different disciplines in order to develop a set comprehensive answers to questions surrounding privacy and society. Our team is spread across Europe and includes specialists in computer science, formal protocol verification, sociology, social philosophy, cryptography and engineering. </p>
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			<h3>Launch</h3>

			<h4><small>The Political Significance of Cryptography</small></h4>

			<p class="small">Although historically cryptography has been restricted to government and industrial use, there has recently, after revelations of mass surveillance by Snowden, been increased interest in securing the everyday communications of citizens: Applications such WhatsApp, Telegram, Silence, Crypto.cat, Signal, and even PGP all claim to use end-to-end encrypted messaging to secure the content of communication. There has been discussion in France after the Bataclan attacks of banning end-to-end encryption, and in recent weeks, political parties have declared their desire to keep end-to-end encryption legal but have a backdoor or passwords available to the government. Rumors of hacking now dominate the news, and are claimed even influence elections. Given that cryptography has moved from an obscure branch of mathematical number theory to a real-world problem, the NEXTLEAP project is drawing together an interdisciplinary group of cryptographers, activists, and philosophers to discuss the political significance of cryptography.</p>


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      	<li class="list-group-item"><a href="/events/launch.html#keynote">Keynote by Bernard Stiegler</a></li>
        <li class="list-group-item"><a href="/events/launch.html#panel1">Panel with cryptographers and activists</a></li>
        <li class="list-group-item"><a href="/events/launch.html#panel1">Presentations by NEXTLEAP researchers</a></li>
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			<h3>Seminars</h3>

			<h4><small>2017 - Decrypting Algorithms</small></h4>
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			<h3 class="mt-4">Cryptoparties</h3>

			<div class="text-muted small">27-28-29.10.2017</div>

			<a href="/events/cryptocamp-mdo-2017.html">#CryptoPartyCamp</a> / <a href="http://www.mainsdoeuvres.org">Mains d'Oeuvres</a>

			<h3 class="mt-4">Workshop</h3>

			<div class="text-muted small">17.01.2018</div>

			<a href="/events/workshop-decentralization-2017-01-17.html">Decentralization and Messaging</a>

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			<h3>We are open source</h3>

			<p>Repositories of various deliverables worked on by NEXTLEAP are available as open source materials. Feel free to download, replicate, share, remix and provide us some feedbacks.</p>
			<a class="btn btn-primary" href="https://github.com/nextleap-project/">Consult our github repository</a>
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			<h3>Projects</h3>

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			<h3>Events</h3>

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