Our lab focuses on helping people protect their security and privacy online. We conduct human-focused research and develop human-focused secure and private systems.
Current projects include:
Converting certificate-based authentication into an operating system service.
Improving the usability of the authentication ceremony in secure messaging applications.
Measuring the prevalence and nature of TLS proxies and understanding user attitudes and preferences toward inspection of their encrypted traffic.
Understanding user preferences and behavior when using cloud storage services.
Supplementing the web's existing connection-based and server-based security models with content-based security.
Our lab has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Department of Homeland Security, Air Force Research Lab, Google, and the BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Contact Daniel Zappala (daniel.zappala@gmail.com) for research opportunities in the lab.
Visit us at 2240 TMCB.
