Department of Network Engineering

ISG-MAK

Information Security Group

Introduction

The main objective of the ISG-MAK group is the study of security and privacy for any platform that manages digital contents. The ISG-MAK group has demonstrated its expertise in security and privacy, designing secure crytographic protocols that could be used in many scenarios (blockchain, IoT, data marketplaces, p2p, cloud, etc.).

To provide a few examples, the members of the group have worked on key issues like attack protection and countermeasures, authentication, distributed cryptography, multi-party computation, secret-sharing schemes, key management and copyright protection.

All these topics are part of the background of the group. The group wants to continue working on these well-known previous topics, but their efforts will be focused on these new research lines:
(1) Verifiable computation, zero knowledge proofs and blockchain (2) Post-quantum cryptography and coding theory (3) AI assisted secure localization and satellite communications

 

Research topics

  • Verifiable computation
  • Zero knowledge proofs
  • Blockchain technologies
  • Copyright protection and digital content distribution rights
  • Secure localization
  • Privacy
  • Authentication and certificate revocation
  • Secure identification
  • Reputation systems
  • Security in wireless/wired networks (IoT, cloud, MANET, VANET, p2p, cognitive, satellite, and sensor networks)

 

Ongoing projects

    • VERIFICO: Computación verificable y aplicaciones. PID2024-159480OB-I00. Budget: 82,125 €. Dates: from 2025-09-01 to 2029-08-31. IP: Juan Hernández, Jose Muñoz
    • MATSE: Retos Matemáticos para un Entorno Digital Seguro. PID2024-156636NB-C21. Budget: 80,000 €. Dates: from 2025-09-01 to 2028-08-31. IP: Maria Bras
    • SeamSat.  Integración sin fisuras de redes de satélites LEO, aeronáticas y terrestres. PID2021-124350OB-I00. Budget: 60,742 €. Dates: from 2022-09-01 to 2027-02-28. IP: Jorge Mata, Juanjo Alins.
    • STELLAR: AI assisted secure localization and satellite communications. PID2025-173046OB-I00. Budget: 120,125€. Dates: from 01/09/2026 to 01/09/2030. IP: Enrica Zola, Israel Escalona

     

    Contact Person

    Óscar Esparza Martín

    email:

     

    More information about the research group

    https://futur.upc.edu/ISG-MAK