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Subodh V. Sharma
Subodh V. Sharma is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi, India. He completed a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 2012. Before joining IIT Delhi, he was a Research Scientist at the Systems Verification Lab in the Department of Computer Science at Oxford University (2012-2015).
His primary research interest is in the area of formal verification and its application to establishing systems' security and reliability. He has been a co-investigator on some of the recent studies on Aadhaar (a Government of India initiative and the world's largest unique identity project) security architecture and is actively pursuing research in verification and application of Blockchains for security and privacy.
Personal web page: http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~svs
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Protecting data privacy: Authorisation and access control
The B.N. Srikrishna Committee, which was constituted in August 2017 to draft India’s data protection laws, is expected to submit its final recommendations this month. In this post, Banerjee and Sharma discuss key features of the Committee’s White Paper, and advocate authorisation and access control as a viable framework for privacy-by-design.
An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
While decision on the constitutionality of Aadhaar by the Supreme Court of India remains a matter of speculation, it has become abundantly clear that most of the use cases for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication (ABBA) have turned out to be deeply problematic. In this post, Banerjee and Sharma outline the tentative design sketch of an alternate offline protocol, with digitisation and identity verification objectives similar to ABBA, which may be more accurate and free of the negatives.