SECURE

A SECURE ICT PLATFORM AS AN ENABLER OF CONNECTED SOCIETIES

Through the SECURE project, we aim at developing a pioneering link between optimization tools and new cryptographic methods.
We combine two research disciplines: distributed optimization from signal analysis and control engineering and multi-party computation from mathematical cryptography. Specifically, two privacy-preserving algorisms are being developed:
• an algorithm that predicts the future state/behavior of the system, and
• an algorithm that computes optimal decisions based on the predicted future of the system.

To facilitate the translation from social and ethical concerns in releasing privacy-sensitive data and autonomy in connected societies into technical requirements, SECURE integrates techno-anthropological methods and theories to carry out ethnographic studies among potential user groups and cryptographers.

The SECURE project is finalizing this year, and in that frame we are organizing the research workshop CRYPTIC COMMONS. Transdisciplinary Probes of the Ideal and Real World in Actual Cyber Physical Systems.

If you are interested in cryoptography – society interfaces, or in building research vocabularies across the technical sciences and humanities/social sciences, please join us!

The workshop will take place on May 20th-21st online, and will bring together noted researchers interested in the development of cryptography and cyber-physical systems, and their social impacts. We invite scholars from a broad range of disciplines: cryptography, computer science, engineering and the social and human sciences to explore pathways for the collaborations and developments that are necessary for the making of cryptic commons. During the workshop, we will probe what it means to be “stuck in the gap” and how to create “cryptic commons”.

There will be brilliant presentations from upcoming researchers, lively discussions, and Science TV!

Have a look at the workshop website, register, and please spread the word among colleagues and friends with an interest in the interfaces of cryptography, cyber-physical systems and social life – or engaged in interdisciplinary work across STEM and social science/humanities.
 

Rafal Wisniewski

Principal Investigator, Professor

Tel.: +45 9940 8762
E-mail: raf@es.aau.dk