Modern information systems serve and connect people with many different interests. We are committed to develop and evaluate technical components for future information infrastructures that for principled reasons resolve potential conflicts, or avoid them altogether.

About

The Security and Privacy Lab has been established with the appointment of professor Rainer Böhme at the University of Innsbruck in March 2015.

UIBK's Security and Privacy Group in November 2024

Picture from our Törggelen retreat in South Tyrol (November 2024). Our former lab member Benedikt Lorch was behind the camera.

Research

The lab is known for its interdisciplinary approach to solving exigent problems in information security and privacy, with specific emphasis on:

  • Digital forensics
  • Steganography and steganalysis
  • Economics of information security
  • Virtual currencies and cryptographic financial instruments
  • Privacy-enhancing technologies (PET)
  • Symmetric cryptography for privacy-preserving computation
  • Human factors in information security and privacy
  • Cybercrime

We regularly collaborate with researchers around the world, most recently with colleagues from Universität Münster, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University of Vienna, TU Vienna, TU Graz, ETH Zurich, Czech Technical University, University of Trento, University of University of Naples Federico II, IMT Lucca, TU Delft, University of Cambridge, University of Edinburgh, University of Oxford, University College London, Université de Montréal, Binghamton University, University of Tulsa, University of California at Berkeley, University of Texas at Dallas, Tufts University, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hebrew University, and the Technion.

Teaching

Students enrolled at Universität Innsbruck please visit our teaching page.

Contact

  Mitra-Yolanda Naderi (secretary) Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Böhme
E-mail seclab-informatik@uibk.ac.at rainer.boehme@uibk.ac.at
Phone +43 512 507-53494 +43 512 507-53202
Address Universität Innsbruck
Security and Privacy Lab
Technikerstraße 21A
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Böhme
Universität Innsbruck
Technikerstraße 21A
6020 Innsbruck
Austria

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