Another paper with SECUSO's contribution has been accepted for publication at the Tenth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote ID 2025). The paper "On a Study of Mechanisms for End-to-End Verifiable Online Voting (StuVe)" von Veronique Cortier, Alexandre Debant, Ralf Kuesters, Florian Moser, Johannes Mueller, and Melanie Volkamer was accepted in the "Election and Practical Experiences" track. The authors describe the core idea of selected end-to-end verifiable online voting mechanisms and evaluate them using an interdisciplinary approach that considers secrecy, end-to-end verifiability, usability, and practicality. The paper is a summary of a study on end-to-end verifiable online voting mechanisms that was published by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). E-Vote ID 2025 will take place from October 1-3 in Nancy, France.

Some members from the the SECUSO research group are part of the “Digital Transformation of Research” (DiTraRe) project. At this Leibniz ScienceCampus, researchers from KIT and FIZ Karlsruhe (Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure) are investigating how digital tools influence their daily work. The project focuses on four different areas: “Protected Data Spaces”, “Smart Data Acquisition,” “AI-Based Knowledge Realms,” and “Publication Cultures.” Prof. Melanie Volkamer, SECUSO, heads the “Protected Data Spaces” cluster, which evaluates which data categories can be reused for research purposes and proposes legal, ethical, and technical solutions that take into account different levels of data sensitivity. If you would like to learn more about DiTraRe, subscribe to the DiTraRe newsletter!

On Monday, July 14, 2025, Mr. Laurent Vatrin, deputy mayor and councilor of the Métropole Grand Nancy, visited the SECUSO research group. The visit was part of the German-French talks between Karlsruhe and Nancy. Dr. Benjamin Berens presented our latest research including SECUSO’s work in the field of security awareness through the NoPhish concept. The broader context of the discussions centered around the topic of digital sovereignty and strategies for achieving and maintaining it in the long term.

A paper by SECUSO has been accepted for publication at the 11th Workshop on Usable Security and Privacy at the conference Mensch und Computer (MuC 2025). "`It sounds like automation´ - Towards Users' Understanding of Adaptive Systems" by Anne Hennig, Mattia Mossano, Lukas Aldag, Maxime Veit, and Melanie Volkamer investigated how users understand IT-based Adaptive Systems (ITbAS), and which risks they associate with their use (if any). The paper founds that, even though 72.58% of the participants heard of ITbAS, only 56.5% could define them. Further, the examples the participants provided partially suggest a lack of knowledge about the full potential of ITbAS in their everyday lives. MuC 2025 will take place from August 31 to September 3, 2025 in Chemnitz, Germany.