Previous InfoSec Research Group Projects

Please also see the listing of our current projects.

Key2Kindness: A cross-platform proactive content moderation system

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Mark Warner (UCL), Angelika Strohmayer (Northumbria University), Lynne Coventry (Abertay University), Matthew Higgs (Independent), Husnain Rafiq (Edge Hill University) and Liying Yang (Northumbria University)

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

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Aydin Abadi and Steven Murdoch

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

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Ittai Abraham (Intel Labs), Philipp Jovanovic (University College London), Mary Maller (Ethereum Foundation and PQShield), Sarah Meiklejohn (Google and University College London) and Gilad Stern (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

ingo is the first efficient distributed key generation algorithm that is secure against an adaptive adversary and works in an asynchronous network.

STARLIT

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Aydin Abadi, Steven Murdoch and Mohammad Naseri

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.

PROTECT

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Aydin Abadi and Steven Murdoch

Protecting (Young) Victims of Cryptocurrency Fraud through decentralised insurance markets

Development of a child sexual abuse conversation (CSAC) dataset

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Mark Warner (University College London), Philip Anderson (Nothumbria University), Wai Lok Woo (Nothumbria University) and Garry Elvin (Nothumbria University)

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).