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Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems wins best thesis award

2008-06-03 09:57:41 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
My PhD thesis Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems has been awarded this years best thesis prize by the ERCIM security and trust management working group. The announcement can be found on the working group homepage and Ive been invited to give a talk at their upcoming workshop, STM 08 , Trondheim, Norway, 1617 June 2008
 
Tags: anonymity systems, thesis, ercim security, trust management, norway, workshop, homepage, june, talk
 
 
 
 
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A cryptographic hash function reading guide

2007-11-23 16:01:18 by George Danezis in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...thesis entitled Analysis and Design of Cryptographic Hash Functions . This work provides a very good overview of the state of the art in hash function design up to the middle of the nineties (before SHA-1 was commissioned.) The back to the basics approach is very instructive, and frankly the thesis could be entitled everything you wanted to...
 
Tags: function, hash functions, cryptographic hash functions, functions, functions secure, design, hash function design, compression functions, secure hash function
 
 
 
 
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Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems

2007-12-10 10:39:42 by Steven J. Murdoch in Light Blue Touchpaper
 
...thesis Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems has now been published The spread of wide-scale Internet surveillance has spurred interest in anonymity systems that protect users privacy by restricting unauthorised access to their identity. This requirement can be considered as a flow control policy in the well established field of...
 
Tags: covert, covert channel vulnerabilities, vulnerabilities, network covert channels, covert channels, channels, covert channel, anonymity systems, systems
 
 
 
 
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She could totally be mine...

2007-12-18 00:00:00 by Uriel Maimon in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast
 
...thesis "Nature or nurture, culture or genes: Pick any one -- or all of the above"), and was focusing on a girl on the other side of the bar She could be your daughter," I told R. He continued ignoring me, and said, "She could totally be mine Perhaps, but she won't," I said. "You're 38, you have a girlfriend and you were telling me the other...
 
Tags: friend, human evolution, bar, mine, completely, thesis, daughter, girl, nurture
 
 
 
 
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The Need for Adware and Spyware Blocker

2007-08-01 19:11:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
...thesis is about money laundering so oftentimes she would google the term to come up with a ready list of online references. This proved to be useful to her and the entire process of writing her paper. After several months of doing so, she was confronted with problems like being directed to a weird page totally not related to money laundering...
 
Tags: spyware, spyware blocker, spyware programs, block spyware, adware, computer, computer bug, personal computer, people
 
 
 
 
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Please Welcome Dr. Rainer von Ammon to The CEP Blog

2008-02-12 13:57:59 by Tim Bass in The Complex Event Processing Blog
 
...thesis, Complex Event Processing in the context of Business Activity Monitoring Please join me in extending a warm welcome for Dr. Rainer von Ammon to The CEP Blog
 
Tags: cep blog, blog, rainer von ammon, rainer, cep, von ammon, sciences regensburg, sciences, generation cep software
 
 
 
 
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My Princeton Experience and Optimism for Encryption

2008-02-26 05:56:00 by Patrick McGregor in Data Protection, Management and Leakage
 
...thesis (which explored next-generation security architectures) as a long-term solution. Indeed, for laptop encryption and trusted systems to truly realize their promise, hardware and software must be engineered with security at the core, not at the periphery The exposed flaws in many disk encryption solutions are yet another set of...
 
Tags: security systems, engineer security systems, systems, security, complex security implications, security architects, feltens recent paper, recent paper, data security
 
 
 
 
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David Brin Rebuts Schneier In Defense of a Transparent Society

2008-03-12 01:00:00 by David Brin in Wired Security
 
Wired.com columnist and security expert Bruce Schneier argues that a world without secrets would only give more power to the powerful. Award-winning science fiction author David Brin defends his thesis that a "transparent society" is the best way to even the odds
 
Tags: transparent society, thesis, secrets, columnist, world, power, powerful, odds, wired
 
 
 
 
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What do the Cold Boot Crypto Attack, DVD Players, and MiFare tell us about the Future of Biometrics?

2008-03-26 00:16:43 by Erik T. Heidt in Art of Information Security
 
...thesis that strong authentication through a national ID program would not necessarily pose a threat to privacy; but rather, because of their naive (and irresponsible) handling of the realities of the biometric authentication challenge. They gloss over the real security challenges with creating a national biometric infrastructure. Here are the...
 
Tags: biometric authentication, biometric authentication infrastructure, biometric authentication challenge, tamper-proof biometric authentication, authentication, authentication device, mifare, tamper, biometrics