Our goal is to create novel technological approaches and build real-world systems that:

• Safeguard non-expert users from both technological and social engineering attacks;
• Protect the current and future Internet against Denial-of-Service and routing attacks;
• Design secure sensor networks that are easy to securely set up and maintain; and
• Create a trustworthy computing environment — despite security vulnerabilities in applications and operating systems.

To tackle these challenges, we take a multidisciplinary approach, blending expertise from

• Applied cryptography;
• Public policy analysis;
• Security system design;
  
• Security protocol design; and
• User experience design;

Research Areas

• Trustworthy computing
  • Software-based attestation
  • Secure application design based on trusted hardware (TCG)
• Internet security
  • Anti-spoofing techniques
  • DDoS attack defense
  • Secure routing
  • Multicast key establishment
• Secure wireless communication, including sensor networks and ad-hoc networks
  • Key establishment
  • Secure routing
  • Secure data aggregation
  • Attacks and countermeasures
• Human-computer interaction and security
  • User experience design for secure applications

Faculty Advisor

Adrian Perrig

Current Students

Haowen Chan

Jason Franklin

Cynthia Kuo

Jonathan M. McCune

Mark Luk

Bryan J. Parno

Arvind Seshadri

Elaine Shi

Ahren Studer

Dan Wendlandt

Xin Zhang

Visiting Students

Hiroshi Isozaki

Abhishek Jain

Former Students

Avi Yaar (Microsoft)