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.
The paper “Fix It - If you Can! Towards Understanding the Impact of Tool Support and Domain Owners’ Reactions to SSHFP Misconfigurations" von Anne Hennig, Sebastian Neef, and Peter Mayer has been accepted for presentation at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 2025). The paper sent notifications to domain owners with misconfigured SSHFP records, investigating the effect of tool support. While the sender of the notification itself has no effect, the results suggest that tool support might increase remediation when the sender of the notification is different than the institution providing the tool. By analyzing domain owners’ responses to the authors' notification, multiple reasons for non-remediation were identified, supporting the argument that remediation rate should not be considered a success measure for a notification campaign but instead individual challenges faced by domain owners should be taken into account. ACSAC will take place December 8 to 12, 2025, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
The conferenceThe paper "Development and Expert Evaluation of an Informative Video concerning Verifiable Internet Voting" by Tobias Hilt, Florian Moser, Philipp Matheis, and Melanie Volkamer was awarded the Best Paper Award in the "Governance" track at E-Vote ID 2025. The paper describes the development and evaluation process of an informative video on the topic of online elections. It was emphasized that the paper bridges the gap between research and practical application and provides important insights for society as a whole.
Read the paperWe are happy to welcome Prof. Dr. Vanessa as guest of the SECUSO research group in mid October. Prof. Teague is the CEO of Thinking Cybersecurity and an Associate Professor at the Australian National University. As part of her visit, she will give a talk titled "Auditing complex elections: what does it take to run a convincing RLA?" within the SECUSO Research Seminar. The talk will take place on October 13th, 11:00-12:00, at Kronenplatz, Building 05.20, Room 5A.09.
Further informationThe proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Electronic Voting (E-Vote ID 2025) are now published. All contributions in the proceedings are open access. Editors of the book are David Duenas-Cid, Peter Roenne, Melanie Volkamer, Michelle Blom, Pierrick Gaudry, Isabelle Borucki, Leontine Loeber, and Alexandre Debant. E-Vote ID is the leading international event for e-voting experts from around the world. This year, the conference took place from October 1 to 3 in Nancy, France. At the conference, three papers involving SECUSO were presented.
The proceedings