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Ronald Kainda

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Mr  Ronald  Kainda 
Doctoral Student
ronald.kainda@cs.ox.ac.uk
Room 443

Wolfson Building, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD

Interests

I am interested in usable security in general, human-interactive security protocols, empirical channels, and experimental design of user studies. In broad terms, I can summarise my research interests as mobile and ubiquitious computing, human factors, and usable security.

Biography

I am a DPhil Student in the Department of Computer Science under the supervision of Prof. Bill Roscoe and Dr. Ivan Flechais. I obtained a BSc in Computer Science from the Copperbelt University in Zambia, and an MSc in Computer Science from Oxford University. I am currently working on usable security in Human-Interactive Security Protocols exploring the different potential methods for comparing digest values by human users.

Links

SOUPS 2009 - Mountain View, CA

Concurrency, Verification & Security Seminar Presentation

St. Cross College Colloquium, University of Oxford

ARES 2010 Conference Presentation

SOUPS 2010 - Redmond, WA

WISTP 2010 - Passau, Germany

IWSSI/SPMU workshop - Helsinki, Finland

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Three Systems Security group members complete DPhils

Three members of the System Security group have all passed (or as it’s technically known, “been granted leave to supplicate for”) their DPhils – the Oxford equivalent to a PhD – at the same time.

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Security and Usability: Analysis and Evaluation

Ronald Kainda‚ Ivan Flechais and A.W Roscoe

In Availability‚ Reliability and Security‚ 2010. ARES 10. Fifth International Conference on. Chapter Security and Usability: Analysis and Evaluation. 2010.

Secure and Usable Out−Of−Band Channels for Ad hoc Mobile Device Interactions

Ronald Kainda‚ Ivan Flechais and A.W Roscoe

In Information Security Theory and Practice. Security and Privacy of Pervasive Systems and Smart Devices. Chapter Secure and Usable Out−Of−Band Channels for Ad hoc Mobile Device Interactions. 2010.

Two Heads Are Better than One: Security and Usability of Device Associations in Group Scenarios

Ronald Kainda‚ Ivan Flechais and A.W. Roscoe

In SOUPS '10: Proceedings of the 6th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security. July, 2010.

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