Technical Reports

2010

RHUL-MA-2010-1 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: The sizes of consecutive repeat-free codes
Author: Robin Hughes-Jones
Comments: PhD thesis, 103 pages

RHUL-MA-2010-2-10 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: TBC
Author: TBC
Comments: TBC

 

 

2009

RHUL-MA-2009-1 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Interdomain Routing Security (BGP-4)
Author: Rostom Zouaghi
Comments: Search Security Award Winning Project

RHUL-MA-2009-2 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Maximising the Effectiveness of Information Security Awareness
Author: Geordie Stewart
Comments: Search Security Award Winning Project

RHUL-MA-2009-3 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Information Security Awareness: An Innovation Approach
Author: Carlos Orozco Corona
Comments: Search Security Award Winning Project

RHUL-MA-2009-4 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Fuzzing for Software Vulnerability Discovery
Author: Toby Clarke
Comments: Search Security Award Winning Project

RHUL-MA-2009-5 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Applying Misuse Case to Improve the Security of Information Systems
Author: John Ruck
Comments: Search Security Award Winning Project

RHUL-MA-2009-6 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Buffer Overflows in Microsoft Windows Environment
Author: Parvez Anwar
Comments: Search Security Award Winning Project

RHUL-MA-2009-7 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Management of Risks Associated with De-Perimeterisation
Author: Kwok Keeng Lee
Comments: Search Security Award Winning Project

RHUL-MA-2009-8 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Digital Rights Management: Towards a Balance between Copyright Rights and Fair Use Exceptions
Author: Christian Bonnici
Comments: Search Security Award Winning Project

RHUL-MA-2009-9 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Extending Secure Execution Environments Beyond the TPM
Author: Talha Tariq
Comments: Search Security Award Winning Project

RHUL-MA-2009-10 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Secure Payment Architectures and Other Applications of Trusted Computing
Author: Shane Balfe
Comments: PhD Thesis, 223 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-11 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: On Quantum Codes and Networks
Author: Colin Michael Wilmott 
Comments: PhD Thesis, 211 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-12 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Applications of Frobenius Expansions in Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Author: Waldyr Dias Benits Junior
Comments: PhD Thesis, 204 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-13 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: On the Decisional Diffie-Hellman Problem in Genus 2
Author: Jordi Pujolas
Comments: PhD Thesis, 99 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-14 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Pairwise Generating Sets for the Symmetric and Alternating Groups
Author: Linda Stringer
Comments:  PhD thesis, 185 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-15 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Design and Analysis of Fair Content Tracing Protocols
Author: Geong Sen Poh
Comments: PhD thesis, 231 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-16 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: E-business Information Systems Security Design Paradigm and Model
Author: Sharon Nachtigal
Comments: PhD thesis, 346 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-17 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Securing Mobile Services using Trusted Computing
Author: Adrian Ho Yin Leung
Comments: PhD thesis, 198 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-18 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: The application of hash chains and hash structures to cryptography
Author: Thomas Page
Comments: PhD thesis, 232 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-19 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: The Effectiveness of the Linear Hull Effect
Author: Sean Murphy
Comments: 

RHUL-MA-2009-20 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: The Return of the Boomerang
Author: Sean Murphy
Comments:

RHUL-MA-2009-21 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Overestimates for the Gain of Multiple Linear Approximations
Author: Sean Murphy
Comments:

RHUL-MA-2009-22 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Cryptanalysis of Dedicated Cryptographic Hash Functions
Author: Markku-Juhani Olavi Saarinen
Comments: PhD thesis, 116 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-23 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Diameters of Orbital Graphs associated to Groups
Author: Tom Smith
Comments: 42 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-24 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: RFID Authentification Protocols using Symmetric Cryptography
Author: Boyeon Song
Comments: PhD thesis, 133 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-25 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: E-payments: cardholder privacy and non-repudiation
Author: David John Boyd
Comments: PhD thesis, 270 pages

RHUL-MA-2009-26 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Efficient, Reliable and Secure Distributed Protocols for MANETs
Author: Steffen Reidt
Comments: PhD thesis, 216 pages

 

 

2008

RHUL-MA-2008-1 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Intrusion Detection and Prevention: Immunologically Inspired Approaches
Author: Devid Pipa
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 98 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-2 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Metamorphic Virus: Analysis and Detection
Author: Evgenios Konstantinou
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 93 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-3 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Copy Protection of Computer Games
Author: Richard Hyams
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 64 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-4 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Forensics of BitTorrent
Author: Jamie Acorn
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 92 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-5 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Securing Financially Sensitive Environments with OpenBSD
Author: Nicholas C. P. Humphrey
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 95 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-6 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Cheating and Virtual Crime in Massively Multiplayer Online Games
Author: Rahul Joshi
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 89 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-7 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Review and Analysis of Current and Future European e-ID Schemes
Author: Siddhartha Arora
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 73 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-8 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Information Security Training & Awareness
Author: Monique Hogervorst
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 108 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-9 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Computer Security: A Machine Learning Approach
Author: Sandeep V. Sabnani
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 62 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-10 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Proposed Model for Outsourcing PKI
Author: Christopher McLaughlin
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 173 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-11 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Network Covert Channels: Review of Current State and Analysis of Viability of the use of X.509 Certificates for Covert Communications
Author: Carlos Scott
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 50 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-12 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Detecting Pandemic and Endemic Incidents through Network Telescopes: Security Analysis
Author: Fotis Gagadis
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 106 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-13 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Tigger team -- a novel methodology to manage business risk
Author: Ian McKinnon
Comments: Search Security Award M.Sc. thesis, 50 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-14 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Challenges for Trusted Computing
Author: Shane Balfe, Eimear Gallery, Chris J. Mitchell and Kenneth G. Paterson
Comments: 24 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-15 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Internet Authentication for Remote Access
Author: Paulo Sergio Pagliusi
Comments: PhD thesis, 425 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-16 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Security consideration for virtualization
Author: Carl Gebhardt and Allan Tomlinson
Comments: 16 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-17 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Digital Rights Management for Personal Networks
Author: Imad Mahmoud Aref Abbadi
Comments: PhD thesis, 262 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-18 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: A key management framework for secure group communication in wireless mobile environment
Author: Laila Mat Kia
Comments: PhD thesis

RHUL-MA-2008-19 [abstract , pdf]

Title: Cryptanalysis of Block Ciphers
Author: Jiqiang Lu
Comments: PhD thesis, 222 pages

RHUL-MA-2008-20 [abstract , pdf]

Title: Security Challenges for Swarm Robotics
Author: Fiona Higgins
Comments: 11 pages

2007

RHUL-MA-2007-1 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Enhancing End User Security - Attacks & Solutions
Author: Adil M. Alsaid
Comments: PhD thesis, 177 pages

RHUL-MA-2007-2 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Role Signatures for Access Control in Grid Computing
Authors: Jason Crampton and Hoon Wei Lim
Comments: 19 pages

RHUL-MA-2007-3 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Authorisation Issues for Mobile Code in Mobile Systems
Authors: Eimear Gallery
Comments: PhD thesis, 596 pages

RHUL-MA-2007-4 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: A Geometric View of Cryptographic Equation Solving
Authors: Sean Murphy and Maura Paterson
Comments: 50 pages

RHUL-MA-2007-5 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Secure Cryptographic Algorithm Implementation on Embedded Platforms
Author: Michael Tunstall
Comments: PhD thesis, 242 pages

RHUL-MA-2007-6 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Resonance behaviour for classes of billiards on the Poincaré half-plane
Author: Phil Howard
Comments: PhD thesis, 177 pages

RHUL-MA-2007-7 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: On User Privacy for Location-based Services
Author: Anand S. Gajparia
Comments: PhD thesis, 190 pages

RHUL-MA-2007-8 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Comments on the security of the SPAPA strong password authentication protocol
Authors: Chris J. Mitchell and Siaw-Lynn Ng
Comments: 4 pages

RHUL-MA-2007-9 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Key Establishment Protocols and Timed-Release Encryption Schemes
Authors: Qiang Tang
Comments: PhD thesis, 270 pages

RHUL-MA-2007-10 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: On a Possible Privacy Flaw in Direct Anonymous Attestation
Authors: Adrian Leung, Liqun Chen, and Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 13 pages

2006

RHUL-MA-2006-1 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: On the Difficulty of Prime Root Computation in Certain Finite Cyclic Groups
Author: Anna M. Johnston
Comments: PhD thesis, 147 pages

RHUL-MA- 2006-2 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: On the Application of Identity-Based Cryptography in Grid Security
Author: Hoon Wei Lim
Comments: PhD thesis, 189 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-3 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Likelihood Estimation for Block Cipher Keys
Author: Sean Murphy, Fred Piper, Michael Walker and Peter Wild
Comments: 27 Pages. This version was written in 1995. Similar versions were written in 1994 and 1992.

RHUL-MA-2006-4 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Projective Aspects of the AES Inversion
Author: Wen-Ai Jackson and Sean Murphy
Comments: 15 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-5 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: An Electronic Voting System Using GSM Mobile Technology
Author: Yang Feng, Siaw-Lynn Ng and Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche
Comments: 17 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-6 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Location Discovery using Ad Hoc Networks
Author: Anand S. Gajparia and Po Wah Yau
Comments: 19 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-7 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Cryptanalysis of a Homomorphic Public-Key Cryptosystem
Author: Su-Jeong Choi
Comments: PhD thesis, 309 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-8 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Special Signature Schemes and Key Agreement Protocols
Author: Caroline J. Kudla
Comments: PhD thesis, 188 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-9 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Augmenting Internet-based Card Not Present Transactions with Trusted Computing: An Analysis
Authors: Shane Balfe and Kenneth G. Paterson
Comments: 30 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-9-v2 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Augmenting Internet-based Card Not Present Transactions with Trusted Computing: An Analysis
Authors: Shane Balfe and Kenneth G. Paterson
Comments: 25 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-10 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: e-EMV: Emulating EMV for Internet payments using Trusted Computing technology
Authors: Shane Balfe and Kenneth G. Paterson
Comments: 52 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-10 v2 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: e-EMV: Emulating EMV for Internet Payments using Trusted Computing Technology
Authors: Shane Balfe and Kenneth G. Paterson
Comments: 33 pages

RHUL-MA-2006-11 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Lazy updates in key assignment schemes for hierarchical access control
Authors: Jason Crampton
Comments: 20 pages

2005

RHUL-MA-2005-1 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Security of the Lin-Lai smart card based user authentication scheme
Author: Chris J. Mitchell and Qiang Tang
Comments: 9 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-2 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Cryptographic Schemes based on Elliptic Curve Pairings
Author: Sattam S. Al-Riyami
Comments: PhD thesis, 277 pages

RHUL-MA- 2005-3 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Timestamps and authentication protocols
Author: Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 9 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-4 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Cryptanalysis of a technique to transform discrete logarithm based cryptosystems into identity-based cryptosystems
Author: Qiang Tang and Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 5 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-5 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: A set theoretic approach to broadcast encryption
Author: Thomas Martin
Comments: PhD thesis, 240 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-6 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Understanding and Developing Role-Based Administrative Models
Author: Jason Crampton
Comments: 26 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-7 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Error Oracle Attacks on CBC Mode: Is There a Future for CBC Mode Encryption?
Author: Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 18 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-8 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: PKI - An Insider's View (Extended Abstract)
Author: Geraint Price
Comments: 30 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-9 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Towards the Secure Initialisation of a Personal Distributed Environment
Author: Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche, Allan Tomlinson and David B. Pearce
Comments: 22 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-10 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Decoherent Histories and Quantum Maps
Author: Artur Scherer
Comments: PhD thesis, 140 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-11 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Application of Trusted Computing to Secure Video Broadcasts to Mobile Receivers
Author: Eimear Gallery, Allan Tomlinson and Rob Delicata
Comments: 35 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-12 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Dynamic Frameproof Codes
Author: Maura Paterson
Comments: PhD thesis, 122 pages

RHUL-MA-2005-13 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Interdomain User Authentication and Privacy
Author: Andreas Pashalidis
Comments: PhD thesis, 310 pages

2004

RHUL-MA-2004-1 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: On the satisfiability of constraints in workflow systems
Author: Jason Crampton
Comments: 21 pages

RHUL-MA-2004-2 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Performance study of a COTS Distributed DBMS adapted for multilevel security
Author: Moses Garuba
Comments: PhD thesis, 147 pages

RHUL-MA-2004-3 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Some observations on the Bit-Search Generator
Author: Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 8 pages

RHUL-MA-2004-4 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Cryptanalysis of the Yeh-Sun password-based authentication protocols
Author: Chris J. Mitchell and Qiang Tang
Comments: 6 pages

RHUL-MA-2004-5 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Secure electronic payments for Islamic finance
Author: Mansour Al-Meaither
Comments: PhD thesis, 200 pages

2003

RHUL-MA-2003-1 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: On Recursive Parametric Estimation Theory
Author: Teo Sharia
Comments: 35 pages

RHUL-MA-2003-2 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: On the theory of Point Weight Designs
Author: Alexander W. Dent
Comments: PhD thesis, 111 pages

RHUL-MA-2003-3 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Single sign-on using trusted platforms
Author: Andreas Pashalidis and Chris Mitchell
Comments: 15 pages

RHUL-MA-2003-4 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: On the security of XCBC, TMAC and OMAC
Author: Chris Mitchell
Comments: 15 pages

RHUL-MA-2003-5 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Multi-agent system security for mobile communication
Author: Niklas Borselius
Comments: PhD thesis, 214 pages

RHUL-MA-2003-6 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Public key encryption using block ciphers
Author: Chris Mitchell
Comments: 6 pages

RHUL-MA-2003-7 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Enhancing the security of electronic commerce transactions
Author: Vorapranee Khu-smith
Comments: PhD thesis, 182 pages

2002

RHUL-MA-2002-1 [pdf]:

Title: Feedback and information gain in single atom cavity QED
Author: Andrei N. Soklakov
Comments: 11 pages

RHUL-MA-2002-2 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Contributions to Metric Number Theory
Author: Paul M. D. Rowe
Comments: PhD thesis, 92 pages

RHUL-MA-2002-3 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Enhancing e-commerce security using GSM authentication
Author: Vorapranee Khu-smith and Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 13 pages

2001

RHUL-MA-2001-1 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Measures of Dynamical Complexity
Author: Andrei N. Soklakov
Comments: PhD thesis, 119 pages

RHUL-MA-2001-2 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Breaking the Simple Authenticated Key Agreement (SAKA) protocol
Author: Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 3 pages

RHUL-MA-2001-3 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: The security of the GSM air interface protocol
Author: Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 15 pages

RHUL-MA-2001-4 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Key recovery in a business environment
Author: Konstantinos Rantos
Comments: PhD thesis, 190 pages

RHUL-MA-2001-5 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Design, analysis and applications of cryptographic techniques
Author: Chan Yeob Yeun
Comments: PhD thesis, 135 pages

RHUL-MA-2001-6 [abstract, pdf]:

Title: Secure logging mechanisms for smart cards
Author: Constantinos Markantonakis
Comments: PhD thesis, 187 pages

RHUL-MA-2001-8 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: Remarks on the security of the alpha1 stream cipher
Author: Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 5 pages

RHUL-MA-2001-9 [abstract, postscript, pdf]:

Title: An attack on an ID-based multisignature scheme
Author: Chris J. Mitchell
Comments: 2 pages