5 papers
Making AI-Assisted Grant Evaluation Auditable without Exposing the Model
Kemal Bicakci
Public agencies are beginning to consider large language models (LLMs) as decision-support tools for grant evaluation. This creates a practical governance problem: the model and sc…
When Handshakes Tell the Truth: Detecting Web Bad Bots via TLS Fingerprints
Ghalia Jarad, Kemal Bicakci
Automated traffic continued to surpass human-generated traffic on the web, and a rising proportion of this automation was explicitly malicious. Evasive bots could pretend to be rea…
QES-Backed Virtual FIDO2 Authenticators: Architectural Options for Secure, Synchronizable WebAuthn Credentials
Kemal Bicakci, Fatih Mehmet Varli, Muhammet Emir Korkmaz +1
FIDO2 and the WebAuthn standard offer phishing-resistant, public-key based authentication but traditionally rely on device-bound cryptographic keys that are not naturally portable…
Usability of Token-based and Remote Electronic Signatures: A User Experience Study
Omer Ege, Mustafa Cagal, Kemal Bicakci
As electronic signatures (e-signatures) become increasingly integral to secure digital transactions, understanding their usability and security perception from an end-user perspect…
Decentralized Vulnerability Disclosure via Permissioned Blockchain: A Secure, Transparent Alternative to Centralized CVE Management
Novruz Amirov, Kemal Bicakci
This paper proposes a decentralized, blockchain-based system for the publication of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), aiming to mitigate the limitations of the current c…