Cities digital innovation & sustainability

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The course focuses on the following topics: cities’ role in global governance, international law and city diplomacy, urban economics and management, urban law and governance, urban technology and smart cities, urban journalism and storytelling.

Enhancing acetic acid and 5 hydroxymethyl furfural tolerance of C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum through adaptive laboratory evolution

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityEnhancing acetic acid and 5 hydroxymethyl furfural tolerance of C. saccharoperbutylacetonicum through adaptive laboratory evolutionRafael F. Alves, Ana M. Zetty-Arenas, Huseyin Demirci, Oscar Dias, Isabel Rocha, Thiago O. Basso, Sindelia FreitasAbstract:In this study, adaptive laboratory evolution (ALE) was applied to isolate four strains of Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum able to grow in … Continued

The Framework of Security-Enhancing Friction: How UX Can Help Users Behave More Securely

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityThe Framework of Security-Enhancing Friction: How UX Can Help Users Behave More SecurelyVerena Distler, Gabriele Lenzini, Carine Lallemand, and Vincent KoenigAbstract:A growing body of research in the usable privacy and security community addresses the question of how to best influence user behavior to reduce risk-taking. We propose to address this … Continued

“The simplest protocol for oblivious transfer” revisited

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical Cybersecurity“The simplest protocol for oblivious transfer” revisitedZiya Alper Genç, Vincenzo Iovino, Alfredo RialAbstract:In 2015, Chou and Orlandi presented an oblivious transfer protocol that already drew a lot of attention both from theorists and practitioners due to its extreme simplicity and high efficiency. Chou and Orlandi claimed that their protocol is … Continued

Dual-Use Research In Ransomware Attacks: A Discussion on Ransomware Defence Intelligence

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityDual-Use Research In Ransomware Attacks: A Discussion on Ransomware Defence IntelligenceZiya Alper Genç, Gabriele LenziniAbstract:Previous research has shown that developers rely on public platforms and repositories to produce functional but insecure code. We looked into the matter for ransomware, enquiring whether also ransomware engineers re-use the work of others and … Continued

Authentication and Key Management Automation in Decentralized Secure Email and Messaging via Low-Entropy Secrets

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAuthentication and Key Management Automation in Decentralized Secure Email and Messaging via Low-Entropy SecretsItzel Vazquez Sandoval, Arash Atashpendar, Gabriele LenziniAbstract:We revisit the problem of entity authentication in decentralized end-to-end encrypted email and secure messaging to propose a practical and self-sustaining cryptographic solution based on password-authenticated key exchange (PAKE). This not … Continued