Research

Security, resilient payments and protocols.

Selected research and talks spanning offline payments, security protocols, cryptocurrency systems and trust.

  • Resilient payment systems

    Doctoral thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. DOI
  • DigiTally: Piloting Offline Payments for Phones

    Thirteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, USENIX, 2017. PDFSlidesProject page
  • Reconciling Multiple Objectives - Politics or Markets?

    International Workshop on Security Protocols XXV, 2017. PDFDiscussion
  • SMAPs: Short Message Authentication Protocols

    Security Protocols XXIV, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10368, 2016. PDFDiscussion
  • Stressing Out: Bitcoin “Stress Testing”

    3rd Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research, 2016. PDFSlides
  • Do You Believe in Tinker Bell? The Social Externalities of Trust

    International Workshop on Security Protocols XXIII, 2015. PDFDiscussion
  • Mobile payments under poor network conditions

    Public lecture with Ross Anderson, Strathmore University, Nairobi, 2016. Slides
  • DigiTally: offline payments

    Technology for the Bottom Billion Workshop, Cambridge, 2016. Slides
  • Cryptocurrencies: challenges and caveats

    Alan Turing Institute workshop on the digital economy, British Library, London, 2015. Slides