Christian Collberg

External Member

Christian is interested in computer security, in particular the so-called Man-At-The-End Attack.

The Man-At-The-End Attack occurs in settings where an adversary has physical access to a device and compromises it by tampering with its hardware or software. My current research focuses on remote man-at-the-end attacks which occur in distributed systems where untrusted clients are in frequent communication with trusted servers over a network, and a malicious user can get an advantage by compromising an untrusted device.

Current Research

  • September 2011—August 2013, Man-at-the-End Attacks: Defenses and Evaluation, National Science Foundation Grant CNF-1145913, $269,649, PI: Christian Collberg, co-PIs: Saumya Debray, Loukas Lazos.
  • October 2009—September 2013, Theoretical and Practical Approaches to Remote White-Box Security, United States–Israel Binational Science Foundation grant BSF-2008362, $90,684, PI: Amir Hertzberg (Bar Ilan University, Israel), co-PIs: Christian Collberg, Shafi Goldwasser (MIT and Weizmann Institute).
  • February 2011—September 2011, Putting Network Security on the Map: Visualizing Network Security with a Unified Map Metaphor Office of Naval Research, $399,958, PI: Stephen Kobourov, co-PIs: Christian Collberg, Srini Ramasubramanian, Loukas Lazos.
  • October 2009, gift of $10,476.00 from IRDETO/Cloakware, PI: Christian Collberg.
Peter-Michael Seidel
Member. Interested in computer arithmetic, hardware security, formal methods....
Christian Collberg
Member. Christian's main interest is the Man-At-The-End Attack...
Simon Willerton
Member. He now often thinks a lot about category theory and is partly responsible for the Catster YouTube videos on category theory.
Nancy Mogire
Former research student. Interested in cryptographic protocols for web applications...
Christina Vasilakopoulou
Former postdoc. Christina’s interests lie in Category Theory, especially monoidal and enriched categories...
Dusko Pavlovic
Founder. Dusko is interested in security and adaptation...
Yingfei Dong
Member. His current research interests are mostly in secure Internet architectures and network security...
Fred Piper
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Tobias Heindel
Research Scholar. Tobias’s research has been revolving around logic, verification, and category theory.
Depeng Li
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Catherine Meadows
Member. Interested in algebras and logics of security systems...
Whitfield Diffie
Member. Visiting Professor at Royal-Holloway...
Toshiki Kataoka
Researh student. Toshiki is interested in category theory and categorical logic...
Viktor Winschel
Member. Viktor is applying categorical tools to macroeconomics...
Liang-Ting Chen
Former postdoc. Interested in categorical structures in computer science.
Rui Zhang
Rui's research interests are security and privacy in wireless/mobile networks...
Muzamil Yahia
Research Student. Interested in cryptography, game theory and algorithmic information theory...