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We are committed to develop and evaluate technical components for future information infrastructures that for principled reasons resolve potential conflicts, or avoid them altogether.</p> </blockquote> <h3 id="about">About</h3> <p>The Security and Privacy Lab has been established with the appointment of professor <a href="people/rainer-boehme">Rainer Böhme</a> at the University of Innsbruck in March 2015. Our second faculty member is assistant professor <a href="people/arnab-roy">Arnab Roy</a>.</p> <p><img src="/assets/img/P_Group_20241112.jpg" alt="UIBK's Security and Privacy Group in November 2024" class="img-responsive" /></p> <p>Picture from our Törggelen retreat in South Tyrol (November 2024). Our former lab member <a href="/people/benedikt-lorch">Benedikt Lorch</a> was behind the camera.</p> <h3 id="research">Research</h3> <p>The lab is known for its interdisciplinary approach to solving exigent problems in information security and privacy, with specific emphasis on:</p> <ul> <li>Digital forensics</li> <li>Steganography and steganalysis</li> <li>Economics of information security</li> <li>Virtual currencies and cryptographic financial instruments</li> <li>Privacy-enhancing technologies (PET)</li> <li>Symmetric cryptography for privacy-preserving computation</li> <li>Human factors in information security and privacy</li> <li>Cybercrime</li> </ul> <p>We regularly collaborate with researchers around the world, most recently with colleagues from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, University of Trento, TU Delft, KU Leuven, TU Wien, TU Graz, IMT Lucca, University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, University of Edinburgh, University College London, University of Birmingham, University of California at Berkeley, University of Tulsa, University of Texas at Dallas, Tufts University, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hebrew University, and the Technion.</p> <h3 id="teaching">Teaching</h3> <p>Students enrolled at Universität Innsbruck please visit our <a href="teaching">teaching</a> page.</p> <h3 id="contact">Contact</h3> <table class="table"> <thead> <tr> <th> </th> <th>Mitra-Yolanda Naderi (secretary)</th> <th>Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Böhme</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr> <td>E-mail</td> <td><a href="mailto:seclab-informatik@uibk.ac.at">seclab-informatik@uibk.ac.at</a></td> <td><a href="mailto:rainer.boehme@uibk.ac.at">rainer.boehme@uibk.ac.at</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Phone</td> <td><a href="tel:+43-512-507-53494">+43 512 507-53494</a></td> <td><a href="tel:+43-512-507-53202">+43 512 507-53202</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td>Address</td> <td>Universität Innsbruck<br />Security and Privacy Lab<br />Technikerstraße 21A<br /> 6020 Innsbruck<br />Austria</td> <td>Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Böhme<br />Universität Innsbruck<br />Technikerstraße 21A<br /> 6020 Innsbruck<br />Austria</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p><a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/informatik/kontakt/anfahrt.html.de">For directions please click here.</a></p> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <footer id="footer"> © 2025 – Security and Privacy Lab | Web design by <a href="https://maltemoeser.de">Malte Möser</a> | <a href="https://www.uibk.ac.at/impressum/">Legal notice (Impressum)</a> | <a href="#top">back to top ↑</a> </footer> </div> </div> <script src="/assets/js/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="/assets/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> </body> </html>

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