Georgetown SecLab
Located in the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University, the CS SecLab is an academic and research facility that investigates problems relating to information assurance and computer and network security.
Current areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
- data privacy
- cryptography
- forensics
- network security
- privacy enhancing technologies
- secure distributed systems
- tamper-evident systems
More information about the SecLab’s current projects is listed on the Projects page.
Current undergraduate and graduate students at Georgetown who are interested in computer security research should review the Projects page and contact one of the affiliated faculty.
Students who are interested in joining Georgetown and working in the SecLab should apply through the department’s regular admissions process, and state a preference for working with the SecLab in their application statements.
News
August 8, 2024"Modern Problems Require Modern Solutions": Community-Developed Techniques for Online Exam Proctoring Evasion (with Lucy Simko, Adryana Hutchinson, Alvin Isaac, Evan Fries, Micah Sherr, and Adam J Aviv) accepted to ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024.
July 15, 2024On Precisely Detecting Censorship Circumvention in Real-World Networks, which appeared in NDSS 2024 (with Ryan Wails, George Arnold Sullivan, Micah Sherr, and Rob Jansen), awarded the Best Practical Award at Free and Open Communications on the Internet (FOCI).
June 12, 2024SpotProxy: Rediscovering the Cloud for Censorship Circumvention (with Patrick Tser Jern Kon, Sina Kamali, Jinyu Pei, Diogo Barradas, Ang Chen, Micah Sherr, and Moti Yung) accepted to USENIX Security (USENIX), 2024.
May 14, 2024'I can say I’m John Travolta... but I’m not John Travolt': Investigating the Impact of Changes to Social Media Verification Policies' on User Perceptions of Verified Accounts (with Carson Powers, Nickolas Gravel, Christopher Pellegrini, Micah Sherr, Michelle L. Mazurek, and Daniel Votipka) accepted to Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2024.
May 14, 2024The Onion Unpeeled: User Perceptions vs. Realities of Tor's Security and Privacy Properties (Poster) (with Harel Berger, Tianjian Hu, Adam J. Aviv, and Micah Sherr) accepted to Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), 2024.