Who Are We?

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