Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.
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Areas of research interest relevant to the Home Office GOVUK
Over the last several years there has been a growing interest in distributed ledger technologies (DLTs - which include blockchains such as Ethereum and EOS). One powerful aspect of DLTs that is fueling this interest is t...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: BARRACUDA SYSTEMS LIMITED
The project is specifically focused on building security into the design of distributed ledger technologies, which directly addresses the question.
The proposal will develop novel authentication and authorisation mechanisms for networked financial data using distributed ledger (blockchain) technology. Recent progress in blockchains suggests that one of the interesti...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: METRARC LIMITED
The project is focused on developing authentication and authorization mechanisms for networked financial data using distributed ledger technology, which is partially relevant to the question.
This project seeks to validate the market and identify requirements for a security-monitoring (attack-detection) tool for distributed-ledger technology (DLT)-based systems. DLT-based systems are being developed and impl...
Funded by: ISCF
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
The project is focused on building security into DLT-based systems, which directly answers the question.