The WINES Infrastructure project deployed wireless sensor networks to monitor large bridges (Humber bridge), tunnels (London Underground), and water systems. Our task in the project was to perform a detailed analysis of security issues in existing hardware and software platforms for wireless sensor networks.
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Trusted Path for Smart Cards
The main problem with smart cards is lack of secure display and keyboard that would allow users to verify data sent to the smart card from their computer. Malware on the computer may then alter the data and, for example, change the recipient of a bank transfer.
Continue reading Trusted Path for Smart CardsPrivacy in Common Criteria
Still at Cambridge Uni, Vashek Matyas and myself looked at the definition of privacy in the Common Criteria standard. With Snowden and Echelon some years later, our definitions of unlikable anonymity and pseudonymity make even more sense.
Continue reading Privacy in Common CriteriaChrysalis Luna CA3
I moved some of the contents from an old website of mine. This is one of a small projects back from my time at the University of Cambridge, where we hacked a Chrysalis Luna CA3, which would now be part of SafeNet HSM portfolio.
Continue reading Chrysalis Luna CA3Minerva Attack and Humble Beginnings
Masaryk University has published a new cryptographic attack. You may still remember their ROCA attack from 2017. While ROCA was about the RSA encryption, MINERVA is about Elliptic Curve (ECC) signing.
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