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Research

CrySP carries out research in a wide variety of topics. Some examples are:

(Distributed) cryptographic protocols. Designing interactive protocols to enable secure communication, such as key agreement protocols, key distribution schemes, secret sharing schemes, identification schemes, broadcast encryption and oblivious transfer (D. Stinson).

Efficient cryptographic algorithms and their implementation. Designing and analyzing cryptographic primitives such as block and stream ciphers, public-key encryption schemes, signature schemes, message authentication codes, key establishment protocols, and pairing-based cryptography (D. Stinson).

Cryptographic hash functions. Analyzing the security of iterated design techniques and the random oracle model and constructing families of universal hash functions (D. Stinson).

Useful security and privacy technologies. Producing security and privacy technologies which have a real effect on people's lives, following the principles of usability, deployability, effectiveness, and robustness (I. Goldberg).

Effectiveness of security measures. Analyzing proposed and deployed cryptographic and security systems in order to measure their effectiveness (I. Goldberg).

Privacy on the Internet. Giving both users and providers of Internet services the ability to control who gets access to their data and other personal information. (I. Goldberg).

Security and usability. Making security systems which are easy for people to use correctly, but which also maintain as much security as possible when things go wrong. (I. Goldberg).

Location privacy. Developing privacy-preserving technologies for users of location-based services. (U. Hengartner).

Privacy for (mobile) social networking. Designing privacy-preserving technologies for users of (mobile) online social networking sites. (U. Hengartner).

Cryptographic and online voting. Designing and analyzing voting protocols with high usability and voter-verifiable correctness (U. Hengartner).

Response and recovery strategies. Evaluating and designing effective incident response strategies to ensure business continuity (I. McKillop).

Security assessment and audit. Applying system vulnerability and risk assessment techniques with a particular focus on the financial services and health sectors. (I. McKillop).

Cryptography, Security, and Privacy Research Group
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1
Tel: 519-888-4567 x36163
Fax: 519-885-1208

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