The research group SECUSO (Security • Usability • Society) belongs to the Institute of Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). The group was founded in 2011 by Prof. Dr. Melanie Volkamer at the TU Darmstadt. SECUSO moved to the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology at the beginning of 2018. SECUSO is a member of Kastel, K-CIST and KD²Lab.
Bei der GI-Präsidiumswahl 2026 stellt SECUSO wieder ein Verifikationstool zur Überprüfung der eigenen, abgegebenen Stimme zur Verfügung. Mit Hilfe des Verifikationstools können Wählende überprüfen, ob ihre Stimme korrekt abgegeben und von der digitalen Wahlurne empfangen wurde. Die GI-Präsidiumswahl 2026 läuft von Anfang Oktober bis zum 4. Dezember.
Über die GITwo SECUSO papers were accepted for presentation at the Core A-ranked Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS, Core A Rank). The paper "Enabling Informed Caution: Evaluating an Informative Video with Election Organizers" by Tobias Hilt, Christian Mack and Melanie Volkamer evaluates our informative video on Internet voting with 53 election organisers from German institutes of higher education. The paper "Revisiting the Security-Usability Tradeoff in Internet Voting: A Replication Study Beyond University Populations" by Tobias Hilt and Christian Mack replicates a study to examine whether, and if so, how much usability voters are willing to sacrifice for security. HICCS takes place January 5 to 8, 2027 in Hawaii.
About HICCSMany members of the SECUSO research group visited the 22nd Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS 2026) from August 24 to 26, 2026 in Hanover. We enjoyed some wonderful days with nice exchange in the usable security community. Additionally, Fabian Ballreich, Maxime Veit, Hanna Algedri und Mattia Mossano presented their work in the poster session on Monday evening. Pictures of our visit can be found on our social network accounts (Mastodon, Bluesky, Linkedin).
About the postersOn Friday, October 2, 2026, Christian Linder, delegate of Helmholtz Information in Brussels, will visit KIT. As part of his visit, the presentation of current research on the Engineering Secure Systems (ESS) topic will be in the focus. As part of the ESS visit, SECUSO will present the NoPhish Concept and Awareness Measures demonstrator at the Karlsruhe Research Factory.
About ESSThe paper "Accidentally Simulating Manipulation during a Real Election --- but hardly anyone cares?" by Melanie Volkamer, Florian Moser and Tobias Hilt was accepted for presentation at the International Conference for Electronic Voting (EVote ID 2026). The paper discusses a number of problems and communicational errors, which led to discrepancies between the online voting system and the tools to verify the correctness of ones vote during the 2025 GI election. Thereby the GI election 2025 accidentally simulated a manipulation during a real election, which was noticed and reported only by a small number of voters. EVote ID takes place October 6 to 9, 2026 in Tallinn, Estonia. In total, three papers from SECUSO will be presented this year.
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