RHUL Cyber CDT Blog

 From March 27-29, some of the CDT’s researchers had the opportunity to attend Real World Crypto (RWC) 2023 . RWC moves venue every year, last year being in Amsterdam and next year in Toronto. This year, it was in Tokyo. RWC is focused on bringing together cryptography researchers from academia with developers who implement cryptography in their systems, thus creating open and interesting dialogue between these two communities. Notably, RWC does not publish proceedings from presentations, and talks are solely selected based on how much interest they would be to the intended audience. The talk selection process is not intended to evaluate the academic quality of a piece of research, but rather the potential impact that it would have on society or technology. Therefore, the collection of contributed and invited talks were particularly engaging, with the findings of the different studies having immense current and future impact in the real world. Many of us in the CDT had an interest in a

 The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Cyber Security for the Everyday was delighted to host the return of our annual Showcase as an in-person event at Cumberland Lodge in Great Windsor Park. The CDT funds around ten PhD research studentships each year, with each cohort of researchers undertaking an immersive year of training in cyber security, followed by three years of research. The Showcase welcomed members of the CDT, colleagues at Royal Holloway, and external partners, to learn about some of the fascinating work being undertaken by researchers across the CDT cohorts, and across the many disciplines that relate to cyber security. The opening session featured presentations by several students who have already commenced their studies. Nicola Bates discussed her use of `systems thinking’ to improve the accessibility of knowledge in the cyber domain for key organisational decision makers. Giuseppe Raffa then presented his work on evaluating the effectiveness (sometimes ineffe