Colloquium: Tor's journey towards a more usable anonymity system
SPEAKER: Steven Murdoch (University College London)
ABSTRACT:
The Tor anonymous communication system helps millions of users every day to use the Internet more safely, protecting their identity, blocking tracking, and in some cases circumventing censorship. Since its creation in 2005, the Tor Project has worked to enhance the usability of Tor, bringing it from a research prototype with a handful of users to a easy-to-use modern application today. In this talk I?ll discuss the changes that were made, what motivated the development, and the usability challenges that are specific to anonymous communication systems.
BIO:
Professor Steven Murdoch is the head of the Information Security Research Group at University College London. His research interests include payment systems and privacy enhancing technologies, particularly anonymous communication systems. He was the creator of Tor Browser, and continues to be a member of the Tor Project. He is a Fellow of the IET and BCS and a director of the Open Rights Group.
Everybody is welcome, and attending this colloquium scores points to Ph.D. students for the course "Computer Science Colloquium" (7DAV001).