InfoSec Research Group Projects

Examples of projects currently being carried out in the UCL Information Security Group are listed below. Highlights of projects that have been completed can be found in the listing of previous projects.

REPHRAIN

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Madeline Carr, Emiliano De Cristofaro and Steven Murdoch

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.

UseCRT - User experience and usability of Content Reporting Tools in online social media platforms and their user-to-user messaging services

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Mark Warner (UCL), Catherine O'Brien (UCL), Ruba Abu-Salma (Kings College London), Steven Murdoch (UCL) and Nuur Alifah Roslan (UCL, Visiting)

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.

QuePaxa: Escaping the Tyranny of Timeouts in Consensus

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Cristina Basescu (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), Vero Estrada-Galinanes (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), Bryan Ford (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne), Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (Mysten Labs and Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Philipp Jovanovic (University College London), Ewa Syta (Trinity College) and Pasindu Tennage (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)

AQuePaxa, is the first consensus protocol offering state-of-the-art normalcase efficiency without depending on timeouts.

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).

Adaptively-Secure Asynchronous Consensus based on Directed Acyclic Graphs

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Lefteris Kokoris Kogias (Mysten Labs and Institute of Science and Technology Austria), Bryan Kumara (The Alan Turing Institute), Philipp Jovanovic (University College London), Alberto Sonnino (Mysten Labs and University College London), Pasindu Tennage (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne) and Igor Zablotchi (Mysten Labs)

This project aims to design a consensus protocol based on directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) that can operate under asynchronous network assumptions while being secure against adaptive adversaries.

Towards A Smart Digital Forensic Advisor To Support First Responders With At-Scene Triage Of Digital Evidence Across Crime Types

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Val Abreu (UCL), Catherine O'Brien (UCL), Mark Warner (UCL), Maria Maclennan (University of Edinburgh), Niamh Nic Daéid (University of Dundee), Oriola Sallavaci (University of Essex) and Sarah Morris (University of Southampton)

This project is investigating existing practices, resources, challenges, and user needs around the process of search and seizure of digital devices across two distinct crime types.