Dr. Nataliia Bielova, Inria | Dr. Abhishek Bichhawat, IIT Gandhinagar | Dr. Cristiana Santos, Utrecht University
Accepted to be published at @Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, 2025
We propose a framework to audit consent revocation on the Web and assess it from multiple angles: (1) usability and compliance of the revocation interface, (2) efficacy of consent revocation on A&A cookies, (3) consistency of storage of consent revocation across multiple browser storages, (4) proper communication of revoked consent to third parties.
Dr. Abhishek Bichhawat, IIT Gandhinagar
Accepted to be published at @The Web Conference 2025, Sydney, Australia
Analysis of the websites having 3rd-party scripts accessing first-party cookies. Browser-level implementation of partitioning cookie storage for tainted cookies.
Dr. Abhishek Bichhawat , IIT Gandhinagar
Accepted to be published at @ICSE, 2025 ; Accepted to be presented @MADWeb-NDSS'25
We propose standardizing user consent management by delegating it to browsers, ensuring compliance through user-driven cookie preferences. This approach promises a more user-friendly, comprehensible system free of dark patterns, while maintaining strict compliance with consent requirements.
Anupam Sharma, Shreyashi Karmakar, Dr. Abhishek Bichhawat , IIT Gandhinagar
Accepted to be published at @EASE ,2025
We conduct a longitudinal and cross-domain analysis of the prevalence of commit signing, focusing on real user data by excluding bot and web-based commits.
Dr. Abhishek Bichhawat , IIT Gandhinagar
Accepted to be published at @ICISS, 2024
User study to investigate the understanding of privacy on the web amongst Indians, and to provide a basis for making web privacy features more usable among Indian users. Through this user study, we want to understand how different attributes affect privacy choices of the users when they are accessing the web.
Dr. Abhishek Bichhawat, IIT Gandhinagar
2nd Prize, Student Research Competition @ Symposium on Applied Computing , 2024 , Avila, Spain
Analysis of the websites having 3rd-party scripts accessing first-party cookies. Browser-level implementation of partitioning cookie storage for tainted cookies.
Dr. Sameer Kulkarni, IIT Gandhinagar
Accepted and published at COMSNET,2023
We present a holistic view of possible security attacks with unsecured southbound APIs and argue that the need for the adoption of secure southbound communication channel is becoming inevitable. In this context, we also evaluate and compare the performance overheads incurred due to the adoption of TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 respectively.