"Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems" wins best thesis award

My PhD thesis “Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems” has been awarded this year’s best thesis prize by the ERCIM security and trust management working group. The announcement can be found on the working group homepage and I’ve been invited to give a talk at their upcoming workshop, STM 08, Trondheim, Norway, 16–17 June 2008.

Update 2007-07-07: ERCIM have also published a press release.

1 thought on “"Covert channel vulnerabilities in anonymity systems" wins best thesis award

  1. Well done Steve, the hard work was worth it 8)

    As you know I have thought it was a goog idea from some time ago.

    The question is when are you going to expand on the idea to show how hosts with multiple network cards and IP addressess running multiple servers (ie Apache etc) or OS’s (ie via VMware etc) can be remotely detected using the same idea?

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