Dr Chris Culnane

Biography

I am currently a Research Fellow on the EPSRC funded Trustworthy Voting Systems project. My current research is on secure, end-to-end verifiable, electronic voting systems, with a particular focus on the implementation and usability of such systems. My other research interests include information security in general and human verifiable authentication techniques.

My PhD, which I received in 2009, focused on developing digital watermarking techniques that were robust to printing and scanning and appropriate for text documents.

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Publications

• Chris Culnane, David Bismark, James Heather, Steve Schneider, Sriramkrishnan Srivinasan & Zhe Xia  Authentication Codes.  EVT/WOTE Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections, San Francisco, 2011
• Steve Schneider, Morgan Llewellyn, Chris Culnane, James Heather, Sriramkrishnan Srinivasan & Zhe Xia Focus Group Views on Pret a Voter 1.0.  RE-Vote:  International Workshop on Requirements Engineering for Electronic Voting Systems, Trento, 2011
• Steve Schneider, Sriramkrishnan Srivinasan, Chris Culnane, James Heather & Zhe Xia Prêt à Voter with write-ins. Vote-ID: International Conference on e-Voting and Identity, Tallinn, Estonia, 2011
• Zhe Xia, Chris Culnane, James Heather, Hugo Jonker, Peter Ryan, Steve Schneider, & Sriram Srivinasan Versatile Prêt à Voter: Handling Multiple Election Methods with a Unified Interface. IndoCrypt 2010
• Johann A. Briffa, Chris Culnane, and Helen Treharne. Imperceptible yellow dot watermarking for printed binary documents. In SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, Belgium, April 12–16, 2010.
• Williams, D.M, Treharne, H., Ho, A.T.S., Culnane, C., Using a Formal Analysis Technique to Identify an Unbinding Attack on a Buyer-Seller Watermarking Protocol. 10th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security, September 22-23, 2008, Oxford, UK
• Culnane, C., Treharne, H., Ho, A.T.S., Authenticating Binary Text Documents Using a Localising OMAC Watermark Robust to Printing and Scanning. International Workshop for Digital Watermarking (IWDW07), Guangzhou, China, 3-5 December 2007
• Zhao, X., Ho, A.T.S., Treharne, H., Pankajakshan, V., Culnane, C., Jiang, W., A Novel Semi-Fragile Image Watermarking, Authentication and Self-restoration Technique Using the Slant Transform. IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIH-MSP07), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 26-28 November 2007
• Culnane, C., Treharne, H., Ho, A.T.S., Improving Multi-set Formatted Binary Text Watermarking Using Continuous Line Embedding. IEEE International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ICICIC-07), Kumamoto, Japan,  5 - 7 September 2007
• Culnane, C., Treharne, H., Ho, A.T.S., A New Multi-Set Modulation Technique for Increasing Hiding Capacity of Binary Watermark for Print and Scan Processes. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Digital Watermarking, Vol. 4283/2006, p96-110, ISBN: 978-3-540-48825-5, 2006