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Nicolas Huaman

Researcher @ TeamUSEC and Leibniz University Hannover.
Interested in Usable Security, Authentication, and the Web.

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Selected Publications

2024


Passwords To-Go: Investigating Multifaceted Challenges for Password Managers in the Android Ecosystem
Nicolas Huaman, Marten Oltrogge, Sabrina Amft, Yannik Evers, Sascha Fahl,
In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference

"You have to read 50 different RFCs that contradict each other": An Interview Study on the Experiences of Implementing Cryptographic Standards
Nicolas Huaman, Jacques Suray, Jan H. Klemmer, Marcel Fourné, Sabrina Amft, Ivana Trummová, Yasemin Acar, Sascha Fahl,
In 33rd USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security '24, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14-16, 2024

2023


"We’ve Disabled MFA for You": An Evaluation of the Security and Usability of Multi-Factor Authentication Recovery Deployments
Sabrina Amft, Sandra Höltervennhoff, Nicolas Huaman, Alexander Krause, Lucy Simko, Yasemin Acar, Sascha Fahl,
In 2023 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '23), November 26–30, 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark

Pushed by Accident: A Mixed-Methods Study on Strategies of Handling Secret Information in Source Code Repositories
Alexander Krause, Jan H. Klemmer, Nicolas Huaman, Dominik Wermke, Yasemin Acar, Sascha Fahl,
In 32nd {USENIX} Security Symposium, {USENIX} 2023, Anaheim CA, USA, August 9-11, 2023

“Would You Give the Same Priority to the Bank and a Game? I Do Not!” Exploring Credential Management Strategies and Obstacles during Password Manager Setup
Sabrina Amft, Sandra Höltervennhoff, Nicolas Huaman, Yasemin Acar, Sascha Fahl,
In 19th Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2023, Anaheim CA, USA, August 6-8, 2023

2022


If You Can't Get Them to the Lab: Evaluating a Virtual Study Environment with Security Information Workers
Nicolas Huaman, Alexander Krause, Dominik Wermke, Jan H. Klemmer, Christian Stransky, Yasemin Acar, Sascha Fahl,
Eighteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2022, Boston MA, USA, August 8-9, 2022

2021


A Large-Scale Interview Study on Information Security in and Attacks against Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
Nicolas Huaman, Bennet Skarczinski, Dominik Wermke, Christian Stransky, Yasemin Acar, Arne Dreißigacker, Sascha Fahl,
30th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security '21, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 11-13, 2021

On the Limited Impact of Visualizing Encryption: Perceptions of E2E Messaging Security
Christian Stransky, Dominik Wermke, Johanna Schrader, Nicolas Huaman, Yasemin Acar, Anna Lena Fehlhaber, Miranda Wei, Blase Ur, Sascha Fahl,
Seventeenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2021, August 8-10, 2021

Why Eve and Mallory Still Love Android: Revisiting TLS (In)Security in Android Applications
Marten Oltrogge, Nicolas Huaman, Sabrina Amft, Yasemin Acar, Michael Backes, Sascha Fahl,
30th USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX Security '21, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, August 11-13, 2021

They Would do Better if They Worked Together: The Case of Interaction Problems Between Password Managers and Websites
Nicolas Huaman, Sabrina Amft, Marten Oltrogge, Yasemin Acar, Sascha Fahl,
42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, IEEE S&P 2021, May 24-27, 2021

2020


Cloudy with a Chance of Misconceptions: Exploring Users' Perceptions and Expectations of Security and Privacy in Cloud Office Suites
Dominik Wermke, Christian Stransky, Nicolas Huaman, Niklas Busch, Yasemin Acar, Sascha Fahl,
Sixteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security, SOUPS 2020, August 12-14, 2020

2018


A Large Scale Investigation of Obfuscation Use in Google Play
Dominik Wermke, Nicolas Huaman, Yasemin Acar, Bradley Reaves, Patrick Traynor, Sascha Fahl,
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, ACSAC 2018, San Juan, PR, USA, December 03-07, 2018

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