Safe cryptography for all: towards visual metaphor driven cryptography building blocks

Dirk van der Linden; Awais Rashid; Emma J Williams; Bogdan Warinschi

doi:10.23919/SEAD.2018.8472852

Safe cryptography for all: towards visual metaphor driven cryptography building blocks

Dirk van der Linden, Awais Rashid, Emma J Williams, Bogdan Warinschi

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Abstract

In this vision paper, we focus on a key aspect of the modern software developer’s potential to write secure software: their (lack of) success in securely using cryptography APIs. In particular, we note that most ongoing research tends to focus on identifying concrete problems software developers experience, and providing workable solutions, but that such solutions still require developers to identify the appropriate API calls to make and, worse, to be familiar with and configure sometimes obscure parameters of such calls. In contrast, we envision identifying and employing targeted visual metaphors to allow developers to simply select the most appropriate cryptographic functionality they need.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment (SEAD 2018)
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of a meeting held 27 May - 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	41-44
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450357272
ISBN (Print)	9781538661789
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.23919/SEAD.2018.8472852
Publication status	Published - 1 Oct 2018
Event	First International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment: The 40th International Conference on Software Engineering - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 27 May 2018 → 3 Jun 2018 http://design.se.rit.edu/SEAD2018/

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Conference	First International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment
Abbreviated title	SEAD'18
Country/Territory	Sweden
Period	27/05/18 → 3/06/18
Internet address	http://design.se.rit.edu/SEAD2018/

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Cyber Security

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van der Linden, D., Rashid, A., Williams, E. J., & Warinschi, B. (2018). Safe cryptography for all: towards visual metaphor driven cryptography building blocks. In 2018 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment (SEAD 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 27 May - 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden. (pp. 41-44). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.23919/SEAD.2018.8472852

van der Linden, Dirk ; Rashid, Awais ; Williams, Emma J et al. / Safe cryptography for all : towards visual metaphor driven cryptography building blocks. 2018 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment (SEAD 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 27 May - 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. pp. 41-44

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van der Linden, D, Rashid, A, Williams, EJ & Warinschi, B 2018, Safe cryptography for all: towards visual metaphor driven cryptography building blocks. in 2018 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment (SEAD 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 27 May - 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 41-44, First International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment, Sweden, 27/05/18. https://doi.org/10.23919/SEAD.2018.8472852

Safe cryptography for all: towards visual metaphor driven cryptography building blocks. / van der Linden, Dirk; Rashid, Awais; Williams, Emma J et al.
2018 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment (SEAD 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 27 May - 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2018. p. 41-44.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference Contribution (Conference Proceeding)

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van der Linden D, Rashid A, Williams EJ, Warinschi B. Safe cryptography for all: towards visual metaphor driven cryptography building blocks. In 2018 IEEE/ACM 1st International Workshop on Security Awareness from Design to Deployment (SEAD 2018): Proceedings of a meeting held 27 May - 3 June 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden.. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). 2018. p. 41-44 doi: 10.23919/SEAD.2018.8472852

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