Previous InfoSec Research Group Projects
Please also see the listing of our current projects.
Understanding, Measuring and Improving the Security of Collaboration Tools
Exploring the usability of collaboration tools in the context of anonymous communications, through a combination of theoretical, qualitative and quantitative methods.
REPHRAIN
The National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence Online, is a collaboration between the University of Bristol, UCL, the University of Bath, the University of Edinburgh and Kings College London.
Key2Kindness: A cross-platform proactive content moderation system
Key2Kindness is an interdisciplinary project exploring the role of proactive content moderation systems to reduce instances of online harassment across both privacy and public online social platforms.
PAYMENT: Applying privacy enhancing technologies to improve consumer protection
Consumer protection for financial payment allows individuals to have confidence that electronic transactions are safe, but also plays a critical role in reducing levels of fraud. Through assigning responsibility for reimbursement to the party in the best position to prevent crime, consumer protection rules supports investment in fraud-prevention technology. However liability engineering can only be effective if rules are fair and implementation is transparent. This project applies privacy enhancing technologies to ensure that consumer protection is working properly, while protecting the privacy of payment system participants.
Bingo: Adaptivity and asynchrony in verifiable secret sharing and distributed key generation
ingo is the first efficient distributed key generation algorithm that is secure against an adaptive adversary and works in an asynchronous network.
Arke: Scalable and Byzantine Fault Tolerant Privacy-Preserving Contact Discovery
Arke is a novel approach towards privacy-preserving scalable contact discovery in a Byzantine setting that does not rely on trusted third parties.
QuePaxa: Escaping the Tyranny of Timeouts in Consensus
AQuePaxa, is the first consensus protocol offering state-of-the-art normalcase efficiency without depending on timeouts.
STARLIT
A joint project between Privitar, UCL and Cardiff University on applying privacy-preserving federated machine learning to financial crime prevention. The project was awarded first place in the UK-US privacy enhancing technologies prize challenge.
Usable Privacy in Female Health Apps
This project explores the usability of privacy mechanisms within female mHealth apps, focusing on features that allow users to manage their data such as deletion and data portability mechanisms.
PROTECT
Protecting (Young) Victims of Cryptocurrency Fraud through decentralised insurance markets
Development of a child sexual abuse conversation (CSAC) dataset
This project will lead to advances in our understanding of how perpetrators of child sexual grooming engage online with young people through computer-mediated communication tools and platforms (e.g., Facebook, WhatsApp).
UseCRT - User experience and usability of Content Reporting Tools in online social media platforms and their user-to-user messaging services
This project will evaluate the user experience and usability of user content reporting tools in the most popular social media platforms and their user-to-user messaging services, investigated within the context of online harassment as defined by the platforms themselves.