RESEARCH

Open science.
Including the parts that are not done yet.

Academic submissions, conference talks, and threat reports. We say which papers are accepted, which are still being written, and which we have only thought about starting.

Papers

DraftingUSENIX Security 2027Submission deadline 2027-02

On-device key sovereignty with hardware-bound attestation

How a phone can prove it is running a specific, verifiable image without leaking identifying information — and what happens when the chip lies.

Internal + collaborators (anonymized for review)

DraftingIEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2027Submission deadline 2026-11

Federated immunity with hashed-only pattern gossip

A federation that shares the right amount of information about threats without sharing user identity, location, or content.

Internal + collaborators

Under reviewACM CCS 2027Submitted 2026-05

Three-signature update protocols against single-key compromise

Why one signing key is one too few, and how three independent roles plus a role-diverse quorum changes the threat model.

Internal

DraftingNDSS 2027Submission deadline 2026-09

Reproducible Android: the build pipeline that names its own bugs

How SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, Soong overlays, and signing-role separation deliver a deterministic image that anyone can re-derive from source.

Internal

Talks

DEF CONConfirmed talk

The phone that signs every press: building a sovereign Android stack

Las Vegas, USA2026-08-09
Chaos Communication Congress (37C3)Confirmed talk

Federated immunity without surveillance

Hamburg, Germany2026-12-27
Black Hat AsiaUnder review

Three signatures, one phone, no excuses

Singapore2027-04-13
FOSDEMConfirmed talk

Reproducible builds for an entire mobile OS

Brussels, Belgium2027-02-01

Threat reports

2026-05-28a7e3c19d…

Pattern emerging — fake government earthquake alerts on commodity Android

An ongoing campaign sends spoofed cell-broadcast alerts on stock Android. Our cell-broadcast verifier rejects unsigned alerts on LyDos Phone; we are publishing IOCs to help other vendors detect the pattern.

2026-04-15f9b0c44e…

Quarterly disclosure summary — Q1 2026

Three coordinated disclosures handled in Q1, each patched and published the same day. Findings paid out under the bug bounty program.

We share work under permissive licenses. Pre-prints land on the arXiv mirror as soon as venues allow. Source for every artifact lives in the public repository — including the bibliography.