The Information and Communications Security Research Group is based in the School of Electrical Engineering Systems at Dublin Institute of Technology and was established in 2008 with funding being provided by the Science Foundation Ireland. The Group is headed by Stokes Professor J M Blackledge who has over ten years industry experience in the field of Cryptology. The current research interests and expertise of the Group include the following:
- Data encryption using novel algorithms
- Coding and data compression
- Information hiding and Steganography
- Data authentication
- Printed document authentication using texture coding
- Forensically inert software engineering
- Covert encryption methods
- Management of encrypted information
- Software solutions for security applications
- Network security and internet modeling
- Digital Rights Management
- Risk management and economic security
- Data security for Cloud Computing
- Novel biometric identification technologies
The Group currently has 12 researchers (PhD students, research and associated research fellows) and, together with its academic research portfolio, engages in consultancy for the security industries. This includes industrial collaboration and the establishment of spin-out companies for the commercial exploitation of maturing technologies such as Lexicon Data Limited www.lexicon-data.com. The Group has a range of proprietary technologies available for license through Hothouse, Dublin Institute of Technology’s award winning Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre www.hothouse.ie.
These licenses include:
- Crypstic: Multi-Algorithmic Encryption on a USB Key
- Stegocrypt: e-Document Authentication
- Cryptos: Printed Document Authentication using Texture Coding
- Self-Authentication of Audio Data for Copyright Protection
- Financial Risk Management using the Fractal Market Hypothesis
