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Projects

Take a look at our current and past research and development projects. We research and develop new technologies and tools for cybersecurity and payment security. Our work helps reinforce privacy protection in today’s information society.

Projects

  • Hardware Protected Confirmation

    Leveraging the “Trusted Execution Environment” for security-critical mobile applications: Hardware Protected Confirmation (HPC) can be applied to a wide range of security critical operations.

    • Institute Institute for Cybersecurity & Engineering (ICE)
    • Research unit ICE / FinTech Security Group
    • Head of project Prof. Dr. Benjamin Fehrensen

  • Pig Health Info System

    The ‘Pig Health Info System’ project involved the development of a system for monitoring the health status of pig herds in Switzerland. The system comprises various apps for data collection, a dashboard for...

    • Institute Institute for Cybersecurity and Engineering ICE
    • Head of project Prof. Heiko Nathues, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern

  • abuse.ch

    The heavily used Swiss non-profit platform for protection against cyber attacks is well known amongst the international IT community. Through the projects it has launched, abuse.ch has so far identified and...

    • Institute Institute for Cybersecurity & Engineering (ICE)
    • Head of project Name

  • GNU Taler Snack Machine

    The ‘GNU Taler’ system hosted at Bern University of Applied Sciences represents a secure and transparent alternative to the best-known digital currencies right now. A GNU Taler payment system was installed...

    • Head of project Christian Grothoff

  • Forest Time Machine - virtual 360° reality in the forest over space and time

    We developed a solution for monitoring the growth dynamics of forest stands. A web app enables convenient analysis of attributed 360° photospheres recorded at different points in time.

    • Institute Research Institute for the Security in the Information Society RISIS
    • Head of project Ulrich Fiedler

  • Private authentication and identity management with the GNU Name System

    DASEIN solves problems of secure addressing and identification of devices or individuals, with the help of the free and privacy-friendly GNU Name System.

    • Institute Research Institute for the Security in the Information Society RISIS
    • Head of project Christian Grothoff

    • Security Engineering Group

    • CACE
      The CACE project is an international project, co-financed by the European Commission. It involves 12 different research and business partners from 10 countries. Our research group is mainly concerned with the development of a compiler and verification suite for protocols realising zero-knowledge proofs of knowledge, and leads the relevant work unit.
    • Lugh
      The goal of the Lugh project is to develop a new deep data capturing tool that overcomes the limitations of existing tools. Lugh is currently able to capture complete file modification and memory change histories and stack backtraces, partial instruction traces and screenshots on Windows operating systems.

    Security and Privacy Group

    • MEMdoc
      This project is a collaboration between the University of Bern’s Institute for Evaluative Research in Medicine (IEFM) and our group. We have developed a privacy-oriented architecture for medicine. The project is centred on a platform for medical documentation that collects data in medical registers, for example hip replacement registers, spine operation registers, ophthalmology or oncology registers. In order to respect patient privacy, our architecture separates information relating to the patient’s identity, stored locally in the country of treatment, from anonymised medical information that is centrally stored in Bern for statistical purposes. This architecture allows the user to both respect the patient’s need for privacy and achieve the critical mass needed to produce valuable statistics.
    • FIDIS
      FIDIS (Future of IDentity in the Information Society) was a Network of Excellence (NoE) under the 6th Framework Programme of the European Union. The consortium was made up of 24 partners and was led by the University of Frankfurt (Germany). Partners included academic institutions (University of Freiburg (Germany), KU Leuven (Belgium), INSEAD (France), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), industrial enterprises (Microsoft Aachen, IBM Zurich) and SMEs (Axsionics (Switzerland), SIRIX (Germany)). The project defined new concepts surrounding identity in the emergent Information Society. A particular focus was the concept of ‘virtual identity’ and its use as a new model of interaction between stakeholders in the Information Society.