Dr Steven J. Murdoch

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I am a researcher in the Security Group of the University of Cambridge, based in the Computer Laboratory, a fellow of Christ's College, and a member of the Tor project.

Some of my writings can be found on the Security Group blog: Light Blue Touchpaper.

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19 August 2010
The updated version of my paper at the 2008 Security Protocols Workshop – “Hardened Stateless Session Cookies” – is now available.

09 August 2010
The slides from my presentation at the International Crime Science Conference are now available.

04 August 2010
My paper “Impact of Network Topology on Anonymity and Overhead in Low-Latency Anonymity Networks”, presented at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2010), is now available.

07 June 2010
My book chapter, Destructive Activism: The Double-Edged Sword of Digital Tactics, appearing in Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change, is now online. It is also available for sale on Amazon UK and Amazon US.

19 May 2010
The slides from my presentation at IEEE Security and Privacy (Oakland) are now available, and the final paper (Chip and PIN is Broken) is also online.

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Professional activities

Program committee member

FCS-PrivMod 2010

Workshop on Foundations of Security and Privacy, 14–15 July 2010, Edinburgh, UK. Affiliated with FLoC 2010. Submission deadline is 23 March 2010 (see the CFP for further information).

CCS 2010

17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 4–8 October 2010, Chicago, IL, US. Submission deadline is 17 April 2010 (see the CFP for further information).

Financial Cryptography 2010

Financial Cryptography and Data Security '10, Fourteenth International Conference, 25–28 January 2010, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. Organized by the International Financial Cryptography Association.

Previous programme committee membership

ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security: 2007, 2008.

Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS): 2007, 2008, 2009.

Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES): 2006, 2007, 2009.

ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (Computer Security track): 2007.

FIDIS/IFIP Internet Security & Privacy Summer School: 2008.

Journal reviewing

Includes IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2009), ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (2008), IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (2008), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (2007), IEEE Security & Privacy (2007), The Triple Helix (2008), Identity in the Information Society (2008).

Research interests

Projects

Currently, my most active research topics are on anonymous communications (specifically the Tor Project) and banking security. For other activities, see my project list.

Recent publications

A full list of my papers can be found on the publications page.

Recent talks

A full list of my talks can be found on the talks page. Talks accompanying papers can be found in the publications section.

Miscellaneous

Contact Details

email (preferred):

Steven.Murdoch at cl.cam.ac.uk
To send me encrypted email see my PGP keys page.

post:

Dr Steven J. Murdoch
University of Cambridge
Computer Laboratory
15 JJ Thomson Avenue
Cambridge
CB3 0FD
United Kingdom

phone:

+44 1223 763566

mobile:

+44 7866 807 628

fax:

+44 1223 334678

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