Benefits of using Commutative Encryption for privacy-preserving technologies were presented during ECIW 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal.. Leading researchers from all over the place were there including keynote speaker from NATO Ad-hoc Working Group for Maritime Force Protection. [Commutative Cryptosystems paper]
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OTAPPI (1-out-of-n Oblivious Transfer Access for Privacy Preserving Investigations) was presented on the ECIW 2008 held in Plymouth. Leading researchers from all over the place were there including keynote speakers from Symantec and MET Police. [Privacy-Preserving Investigations paper]
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The British Computer Society in Scotland has awarded Zibi Kwecka of Napier University, Edinburgh as part of the ScotlandIS celebrations to recognize the nation's "Young Software Engineer of the Year" achievers of 2006.

BCS, a prominent member of ScotlandIS, the nation's trade body for the Scottish ICT, awarded Zibi a cheque for 1,000GBP for his work to analyse covert channels. Read More

So now it is official. For the next three years I am going to work at Napier University with Prof. William J. Buchanan towards a PhD in Forensic Computing. The working title of my thesis will be: "An Integrated Framework for Ethical and Verifiable Forensic Computing Investigations Related to Corporate Fraud". Read More

The aim of this project was development of proof of concept software that could assist in fight against dangerous and illegal attachments in e-mail traffic. Implemented software was tested in few different hardware configurations and was found to work well even with large transmissions. Due to the timescale of the project and the fact that produced sof Read More

Napier University have funded 2-months continuation project to transform Application Layer Covert Channels research into a proof-of-concept. The project produced a transient e-mail checking system to protect large e-mail distribution centres from lawsuits relating to distribution of malware and illegal content. Read More

The specification of Internet protocol stack was developed to be as universal as possible, providing various optional features to the network programmers. Consequently the existent implementations of this specification use different methods to implement the same functionality. This created situation where optional fields and variables are often transmitted only to be ignored or discarded a Read More