Company Monet+ is an important long-term partner of CRoCS laboratory. The company focuses on the development of authentication and security mechanisms for the financial sector. Within the framework of this cooperation, several students were supported, and dozens of theses were defended.

The first joint project involved research and development in the field of hardware tokens. Then, research into user perception of two-factor authentication methods was conducted with the AHEAD subsidiary. The current topic of cooperation is the area of blockchain technologies and cryptographic protocols for secure multi-party computing.

Secure multi-party computation

• Design of a solution for efficient two-party signing for bilateral authentication and authorization of transactions.
• Creation of multi-party signatures using cryptographic smartcards for increasing the security of the secret key.

Blockchain technologies

• Analysis of blockchain systems and used smartcontracts.

Usability research

• Research with the aim of discovering user perception of different two-factor authentication methods used in banking applications.

• Automatic Performance Profiler for Security Analysis of Cryptographic Smart Cards
• Clustering of Mobile Devices Based on Their Security State
• Open platform for multiparty signatures with smartcards
• Source code security transformations for JavaCard platform
• Detection of Android Malware Using Machine Learning
• Threshold ECDSA performance analysis
• Building open profiles of certified cryptographic devices
• Distribution portal for applications for cryptographic smartcards
• Synthesizing grammar of smart card commands
• Database of power-consumption traces of cryptographic operations
• Support for U2F FIDO tokens in mobile applications
• Collaborative RSA keypair generation and use
• Smartcard similarity analysis using cryptographic operations performance
• APDUFuzzer: blackbox recovery of smartcard API
• NFC and digital identity in m-banking environment
• Optimized implementations of JavaCard cryptographic algorithms
• Implementation and Evaluation of Authenticated Encryption Algorithms on JavaCard Platform

The offices of subsidiary AHEAD are located on the fourth floor in the S block (CERIT Science park).

Contact persons concerning the cooperation:

• Ondřej Gabrhelík ondrej.gabrhelik@ahead-itec.com
• Antonín Dufka dufkan@mail.muni.cz
• Petr Švenda xsvenda@mail.muni.cz