International Association
for Cryptologic Research

The researchers will be working under the supervision of Prof P Y A Ryan, head of the APSIA (Applied Security and Information Assurance) research group, http://wwwde.uni.lu/snt/research/apsia.

Research Associate in Information Assurance (M/F)

Ref: R-STR-5004-00-B

Fixed Term Contract 24 months (CDD), full-time (40 hrs/week), extendable to 36 months

Number of positions: 1

The research will be conducted within the VoteVerif project (Verification of Voter-Verifiable Voting Protocols), in collaboration with Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland. The project aims to develop novel concepts, methodologies, and tools for specification, analysis, and assessment of information security properties. The focus is on voting procedures and protocols, and in particular on their essential features like confidentiality, coercion-resistance, and voter-verifiability. The approach of the project is holistic, in the sense that we plan to develop theoretical concepts (such as strategy- based metrics of information security) not for their own sake, but in order to apply them to an important domain of social life, and come up with guidance on the conduct of elections and novel designs for secure, usable voting systems. To this end, we are going to develop algorithmic tools that help to analyze the level of security and usability. Note also that, while we focus on voting procedures in the project, the concepts and tools being developed can be also applied to other domains where information security is important.

Closing date for applications: 7 October 2016

Contact: Prof Dr Peter Y A Ryan, peter.ryan (at) uni.lu;

or Prof Dr Wojtek Jamroga: w.jamroga (at) ipipan.waw.pl

More information: http://emea3.mrted.ly/15g3f