Security Engineering is a research group based in Peshawar, Pakistan specializing in security and service oriented architectures related areas. Our areas of focus are Remote attestation via Trusted Computing standards on ubiquitous and mobile platforms. Our research proposes behavioral paradigm for remote attestation. The purpose of this blog i...Read More
Mashups are around serving useful purposes. The technology isn’t new but came as a very different perspective on information sharing between different stakeholders. Currently the technology is limited to a single user accessing a single mashup site which can connect to multiple backend services.
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Video Lectures related to the project Dynamic Behavioral Attestation for Mobile Platforms are now available. You can see the (constantly updated) list of uploaded video lectures here.
We have successfully built NSA SELinux for OpenMoko FreeRunner with support for policy 19-23 using kernel-2.6.24. Most of it was cross compilation and understanding of the kernel and userspace infrastructure of SELinux.
The policy is now being developed further to suite our solutions in permissive mode....
Call for papers for IEEE Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust.
High-quality papers not under review or previously accepted or published elsewhere are solicited. There will be Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards. Submissions are encouraged as long papers (8-12 pages), short papers (4-5 pages)...
Location can be an important consideration in applications these days. We are interested in location based access control. We are using Openmoko FreeRunner as our GPS enabled mobile device and smartphone. Following is the getting started tutorial for GPS on OM: GPS Getting Started
The contribution by SERG has been accepted for the technical strand of the International Conference on Technical and Socio-economic Aspects of Trusted Computing (Trust 2009). So, SERG will probably be represented by one of its members at the conference. More on this later after the registration process...
The following article is a good introduction into the scope of Android and what technology Google is to enable for the near future.
http://venturebeat.com/2009/01/01/android-netbooks-on-their-way-likely-by-2010/
It seems that Android has yet to get mature and it wont be until next year that it will be...
The SERG Wiki has been updated with two articles related to the core concepts of software stacks and how window management is used on these stacks. Its a must read to clearly understand how different kinds of software are interconnected and related in a general purpose OS. This is a work in progress...

