Caroline Sheedy, B.Sc., M.Sc.

I am a Ph. D. candidate in the School of Computing, Dublin City University. My research is in the area of Identity Management and the development of a secure, scalable protocol to sit in between TCP & the application layer. This protocol, or 3.5Net as we have termed it will provide facilities for both client and server to identify users securely and definitively. More information is available in this pdf.

Specifically, I am interested in privacy, privacy enhancing technologies and identity management.

My supervisor is Dr Stephen Blott, you can find him here.

Gavin O'Gorman and I are both working on the Id Management side of 3.5Net. We are working with the Information Management Research Group.

I have attended :

• IDMAN'07, the First IFIP WG 11.6 working conference on Policies & Research in Identity Management where I presented the paper A Contextual Method for Evaluating Privacy Preferences

The paper A Contextual Method for Evaluating Privacy Preferences, co-authored with Ponnurangam Kumaraguru, has been accepted to the First IFIP WG 11.6 working conference on Policies & Research in Identity Management IDMAN'07

I spent a month visiting COSIC at KU Leuven.

The paper Simplified pairing computation and security implications has been accepted for publication into the The Journal of Mathematical Cryptology

This summer, I have attended:

• PET 2006, the 6th Privacy Enhancing Techologies workshop, held in Cambridge.
• IPICS 2006, of which I attended the privacy stream only, comprising of the last three days. It was held in K.U. Leuven.

I spoke at the WIT Summer School on Scientiific Computing 2006.

I also partook in ODCSSS, an initative between the Schools of Computing in DCU and UCD, co-supervising this project.

I successfully completed the Summer of Code, winning some rather cool stuff in the process. The SoC is running again this summer.

I attended the following:

• PET 2005 the 5th Privacy Enhancing Technologies workshop.
• ESORICS 2005 is a leading european research event in computer security, and was held in Milan.
• STM 2005 which was the first international workshop on Security and Trust Management. It was a workshop of ESORICS.
• FOSAD 2005 is an annual summer school on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design.
• HEAnet 2005 is the annual national networking conference held by HEAnet, the service provider for Irelands' academic institutions. I gave a talk at it on PEIM, the slides are available here.

I taught two undergraduate courses this year.

• Semester One: I taught logic, CA208, a second year course run by the School of Computing.
• Semester Two: I taught computer graphics, CA434, a fourth year module run by the School of Computing.

Further details on both courses can be found on moodle.

I co-authored a paper, Simplified pairing computation and security implications with Steven D. Galbraith and Colm O hEigeartaigh.

This summer I participated in the Google Summer of Code. The proposal for the project, Privacy Enhancing Identity Managment c libraries, can be found here. I was mentored by the Apache Software Foundation.

Please contact me at my contact page.

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