Research projects

The Information Security Group plays a leading role in a number of international collaborative research projects. The following is a list of some of the past and current research projects.

Current projects

Dynamic update of shared control systems
An EPSRC funded investigation of solutions to the problem of enabling dynamic changes to a shared control system that are more efficient and considerably less expensive than establishing a new system.

PKI Club
In the PKI club, we are examining the business, trust and technical issues surrounding Public Key Infrastructures.

Mobile VCE Core 2 Research Programme
A UK collaborative programme of research in mobile telecommunications, funded by the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications Ltd.

Mobile VCE Core 3 Research Programme
A UK collaborative programme of research in mobile telecommunications, funded by the Virtual Centre of Excellence in Mobile and Personal Communications Ltd.

The future of PKI
A project funded by PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

NESSIE - New European Schemes for signature, integrity and encryption
An EU 5th framework project concerned with the evaluation of cryptographic algorithms. The 2nd NESSIE Workshop was held at Royal Holloway in September 2001.

Quantum Cryptography
An EPSRC funded project.

USB_Crypt
An EU 5th framework project which will develop a high performance USB security token, and consider its integration into a variety of applications.

PAMPAS
Pioneering Advanced Mobile Privacy And Security
An EU 5th Framework project that has the objective of establishing a roadmap for future European research on mobile privacy and security.

Past projects

SHAMAN
An EU 5th Framework project examining security issues for post 3rd generation mobile telecommunications networks, which ended in February 2003.

Finger_Card
An EU 5th framework project which developed a smart card with an integrated fingerprint reader and integrated it into a variety of applications, which ended in June 2002.

Beyond PKI
A recenlty completed project funded by British Telecommunications.

USECA
An EU ACTS programme project which ended in 2000. The focus of this project was security for mobile telecommunications. One of its major contributions was to play a major role in the development of the specifications for 3GPP air interface security.

ASPeCT
An EU ACTS programme project on security for third generation mobile telecommunications systems which ended in 1998.

3GS3
A DTI/EPSRC LINK project on security for third generation mobile telecommunications systems, which ended in 1996. The 3GS3 project produced three Technical reports, all of which are available on line:

1. Technical Report 1 (on Security features, i.e. Security services)
2. Technical Report 2 (on Security mechanisms)
3. Technical Report 3 (on Security architecture)

Authentication protocols with asymmetric computing requirements
An EPSRC-funded three-year research project which ended in 2001.

Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
An EPSRC-funded research project through the ROPA scheme, which ended in 1998.

Digital Signatures and Hash Functions
An EPSRC-funded research project which ended in 1999.

Research into design and analysis of digital signature schemes
A two-year project from 1994 which was funded by the Lloyds of London Tercentenary Foundation.

Audit and control of digital signatures in a business environment
A 6-month project sponsored by the Information Systems Audit and Control Foundation to produce a state-of-the-art report on Digital Signatures.