T H E S I S

I completed my Thesis in Anonymity Systems. I defended the Thesis on April 17, 2006, so yes, I am officially done with graduate studies. My advisor-Dr.Matthew K. Wright and I worked on a proposal for a new p2p anonymity system and the Thesis was titled "Towards A Stronger Peer-To-Peer Anonymity System".

The complete document can be obtained in pdf form from here.

We presented our proposal informally at The South Central Information Security Symposium(SCISS'06). The Symposium invited short talks for research in progress, and long talks for completed research. We presented a 25-minute talk on the proposed system. The abstracts from the various talks are available on the SCISS'06 website here. Our abstract appears on the site here.

This is the presentation slides in PowerPoint.

CSE@UTA mentioned the SCISS'06 Symposium on their page- CSE on the move. There is commentary on the whole SCISS'06 here, outing including on the presentations by Bridget and Tara too.

Matt presented our paper at the ACM CCS'06. Our paper titled "Salsa-A Structured Approach to Large-Scale Anonymity" wasACCEPTEDamong 38 for research track. ACM CCS is a tier-1 conference. We sent in the final version of the paper a few days ago and now all that remains is th actual conference in Alexandria,VA on November 3.

Matt presented the paper, and apparently it got a good response. There's ideas of how to use them for varied applications but am kinda out of the loop now. Out of school and all that.