A Secure Authentication Protocol for Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors using Homomorphic Encryption

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityA Secure Authentication Protocol for Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors using Homomorphic EncryptionMónica P. Arenas, Muhammed Ali Bingol, Hüseyin Demirci, Georgios Fotiadis, Gabriele LenziniAbstract:Sometimes fingerprint-like features are found in a material. The exciting discovery poses new challenges on how to use the features to build an object authentication protocol that could tell … Continued

Conciseness, interest, and unexpectedness: User attitudes towards infographic and comic consent mediums

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityConciseness, interest, and unexpectedness: User attitudes towards infographic and comic consent mediumsDoan Xengie Cheng, Selzer Annika, Rossi Arianna, Botes Wilhelmina Maria, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Being asked to consent to data sharing is a ubiquitous experience in digital services - yet it is very rare to encounter a well designed consent experience. Considering … Continued

Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors as Physical Unclonable Identifiers in Anti-counterfeiting

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityCholesteric Spherical Reflectors as Physical Unclonable Identifiers in Anti-counterfeitingMónica P. Arenas , Hüseyin Demirci and Gabriele Lenzini Abstract:Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs) are made of droplets of cholesteric liquid crystals (the same material under the screen of our mobile phones) but molded in a spherical shape and hardened into a solid. … Continued

Which Properties has an Icon? A Critical Discussion on Evaluation Methods for Standardised Data Protection Iconography

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityWhich Properties has an Icon? A Critical Discussion on Evaluation Methods for Standardised Data Protection Iconography Arianna Rossi, Lenzini GabrieleAbstract:Following GDPR's Article12.7's proposal to use standardized icons to inform data subject in "an easily visible, intelligible and clearly legible manner," several icon sets have been developed. In this paper, we … Continued

Our paper published in the journal Machine Learning Knowledge Extraction, was selected as the cover page of Volume 4, Issue 1.

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An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification Our paper entitled “An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification”, published in the journal Machine Learning & Knowledge Extraction, was selected as the cover page of Volume 4, Issue 1. This research has the potential to change how we authenticate … Continued

An Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity Verification

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityAn Analysis of Cholesteric Spherical Reflector Identifiers for Object Authenticity VerificationMónica P. Arenas , Hüseyin Demirci and Gabriele Lenzini Abstract:Arrays of Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors (CSRs), microscopic cholesteric liquid crystals in a spherical shape, have been argued to become a game-changing technology in anti-counterfeiting. Used to build identifiable tags or coating, … Continued

“I personally relate it to the traffic light”: a user study on security & privacy indicators in a secure email system committed to privacy by default

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical Cybersecurity“I personally relate it to the traffic light”: a user study on security & privacy indicators in a secure email system committed to privacy by defaultStojkovski Borce, Lenzini Gabriele, Koenig VincentAbstract:Improving the usability and adoption of secure (i.e. end-to-end encrypted) email systems has been a notorious challenge for over two … Continued

I am Definitely Manipulated, Even When I am Aware of it. It s Ridiculous! — Dark Patterns from the End-User Perspective

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Interdisciplinary Research Group in Socio-technical CybersecurityI am Definitely Manipulated, Even When I am Aware of it. It s Ridiculous! — Dark Patterns from the End-User PerspectiveKerstin Bongard-Blanchy, Arianna Rossi, Salvador Rivas, Sophie Doublet, Vincent Koenig, Gabriele LenziniAbstract:Online services pervasively employ manipulative designs (i.e., dark patterns) to influence users to purchase goods and subscriptions, spend more … 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

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