Secret shares to protect health records in Cloud-based infrastructures
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Ukwandu, E., van Deursen, N., Fan, L., Russell, G., Lo, O., & Thuemmler, C. (2016)
Secret shares to protect health records in Cloud-based infrastructures. In 2015 17th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (HealthCom)https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2015.7454589
Increasingly health records are stored in cloud-based systems, and often protected by a private key. Unfortunately the loss of this key can cause large-scale data loss. This p...
RESCUE: Resilient Secret Sharing Cloud-based Architecture.
Conference Proceeding
Ukwandu, E., Buchanan, W. J., Fan, L., Russell, G., & Lo, O. (2015)
RESCUE: Resilient Secret Sharing Cloud-based Architecture. In 2015 IEEE Trustcom/BigDataSE/ISPA Vol. 1, (872-879). https://doi.org/10.1109/Trustcom.2015.459
This paper presents an architecture (RESCUE) of a system that is capable of implementing: a keyless encryption method; self-destruction of data within a time frame without use...
A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports
Conference Proceeding
Barati, M., Buchanan, W. J., Lo, O., & Rana, O. (2022)
A Privacy-Preserving Platform for Recording COVID-19 Vaccine Passports. In UCC '21: Proceedings of the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing Companion. https://doi.org/10.1145/3492323.3495626
Digital vaccination passports are being proposed by various governments internationally. Trust, scalability and security are all key challenges in implementing an online vacci...
Correlation Power Analysis on the PRESENT Block Cipher on an Embedded Device
Conference Proceeding
Lo, O., Buchanan, W. J., & Carson, D. (2018)
Correlation Power Analysis on the PRESENT Block Cipher on an Embedded Device. In ARES 2018 Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Securityhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3230833.3232801
Traditional cryptographic techniques have proven to work well on most modern computing devices but they are unsuitable for devices (e.g. IoT devices) where memory, power consu...
Towards a framework for the generation of enhanced attack/background network traffic for evaluation of network-based intrusion detection systems
Conference Proceeding
Lo, O. C. W., Graves, J. R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2010)
Towards a framework for the generation of enhanced attack/background network traffic for evaluation of network-based intrusion detection systems. In J. Demergis (Ed.), Proceedings of 9th European Conference on Information Warfare and Security. , (190-200
There are a multitude of threats faced in computer networks such as viruses, worms, trojans, attempted user privilege gain, data theft and denial of service attacks. To combat...
Who would you trust to identify you in accessing your health record?
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Anderson, C., Smales, A., Varga, J., Burns, N., Uthmani, O., …Lawson, A. (2013)
Who would you trust to identify you in accessing your health record?
Within health and social care there is a strong need to provide access to highly sensitive information, and one which requires high levels of identity assurance. This paper ou...
Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture.
Conference Proceeding
Buchanan, W. J., Uthmani, O., Fan, L., Burns, N., Lo, O., Lawson, A., …Anderson, C. (2013)
Modelling of integrated trust, governance and access safi.re: Information Sharing Architecture. In M. Felici (Ed.), Cyber Security and Privacy, (91-101). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41205-9_8
We live in a world where trust relationships are becoming ever more important. This paper outlines how an architecture which abstracts these relationships between domains, org...
GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS
Conference Proceeding
Chrysoulas, C., Thomson, A., Pitropakis, N., Papadopoulos, P., Lo, O., Buchanan, W. J., …Tsolis, D. (2022)
GLASS: Towards Secure and Decentralized eGovernance Services using IPFS. In Computer Security. ESORICS 2021 International Workshops. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95484-0_3
The continuously advancing digitization has provided answers to the bureaucratic problems faced by eGovernance services. This innovation led them to an era of automation, broa...
DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud.
Conference Proceeding
Fan, L., Buchanan, W. J., Thuemmler, C., Lo, O., Khedim, A. S., Uthmani, O., …Bell, D. (2011)
DACAR platform for eHealth services cloud. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2011.31
The use of digital technologies in providing health care services is collectively known as eHealth. Considerable progress has been made in the development of eHealth services,...
PAN-DOMAIN: Privacy-preserving Sharing and Auditing of Infection Identifier Matching
Conference Proceeding
Abramson, W., Buchanan, W. J., Sayeed, S., Pitropakis, N., & Lo, O. (2022)
PAN-DOMAIN: Privacy-preserving Sharing and Auditing of Infection Identifier Matching. In 14th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks. https://doi.org/10.1109/SIN54109.2021.9699138
The spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the need for a robust contact tracing infrastructure that enables infected individuals to have their contacts traced, and followed up wi...