Projects

Research currently being conducted through the ISIS lab includes:

  • Biometric Authentication
    The main objective of this project is to develop simple, practical and provably effective cryptographic techniques for the security and privacy of biometric data.more….
  • CAPTCHAs
    In this project, we demonstrate that the computational and development cost of a script breaking through some currently deployed visual reverse Turing tests is low, thus making them ineffective in protecting these services.more….
  • Code Obfuscation
    Obfuscation is the process of making software more difficult to understand and as a result harder to reverse engineer or tamper.more….
  • Evidence Recovery
    Our original work involved using a general process model for automatically analyzing a collection of fragments to reconstruct the original document by placing the fragments in proper order.more….
  • ForNet
    ForNet, which is the core of Project ForNet, is a distributed forensics network. It provides a scalable network logging mechanism to aid forensics over wide area networks.more….
  • Hardware IDS
    We propose a hardware-based intrusion detection system. Hardware-based intrusion sensing/detection modules will be attached to a host to detect intrusions at the level of individual applications running on a host.more….
  • High Assurance Virtualization Engine
    In this project we propose to prototype a High Assurance Virtualization ENgine (HAVEN) using Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based secure co-processing to address the aforementioned limitations of current virtualization technology.more….
  • Key Predistribution
    In this project, we consider the wireless network formed by home appliances such as TVs and refrigerators, as well as personal computing devices such as laptop computers, smart-phones and PDAs. It is desirable that 1) mutual authentication between any two devices can be achieved without any central authority, and 2) different devices are able to communicate securely with one another using only limited computing power. more….
  • Multimedia Forensics
    In the analog world, an image (specifically a photograph) has generally been accepted as a “proof of occurrence” of the event it depicts. In today’s digital age, however, the creation and manipulation of digital images and videos are made simple through digital processing tools that are easily and widely available.more….
  • Parasitic Storage
    We have developed a prototype of a distributed file system where the remote storage function is performed by computers on the Internet that are not willingly providing storage service. more….
  • PCAP Compression
    The CAMP project is developing protocol-aware software for compressing large files containing packets captured from network links.more….
  • Perceptual Hashing
    Perceptual hash functions are designated hash functions for multimedia contents. Similar to cryptographic hash functions, they are required to generate different hash values for different inputs.more….
  • RF Fingerprinting
    Our ongoing research investigates the potential for extending RF fingerprinting methodology to go beyond transient response and deploying it for network-security purposes.more….
  • Security in Cooperative Wireless Communications
    Cooperative diversity avails MIMO-class benefits (e.g., improved BER, outage behavior) to single-antenna wireless devices through cooperative relaying.more….
  • Sensor Net Routing
    Ad hoc networks of tiny wireless sensors, working in unison, sensing and disseminating information, are expected to have numerous applications in the near future.more….
  • Social Engineering
    This thesis proposes several methods for automating the detection of social engineering attacks as they occur over the phone.more….
  • Steganography
    In our research on image steganography and steganalysis techniques, funded by AFOSR, we have contributed in three fundamental areas.more….
  • Virtual Lab
    For this project, we are working on the design of a virtual laboratory that will allow multiple institutions to share one physical laboratory. more….
  • Visual Passwords
    Graphical passwords are an authentication mechanism for computer systems. The difference between a VP and the currently dominant alphanumeric password is that with a VP, a user’s password is represented by where that user clicks on an image.more….
  • Watermarking
    Our research takes a multiple-pronged approach that applies the ideas and principles of watermarking to physical-layer communication and network-security problems.more….