Alexandra Dirksen is a PhD Candidate at TU Braunschweig/IAS. She is currently working in the field of Web Security & Privacy, currently focused on Web PKI and Large Scale Adversaries.
During the year 2023 she is an fellow of OTF's Information Controls Fellowship programm (ICFP). In collaboration with Censored Planet she is working on techniques for the detection of large-scale HTTPS Interception attacks, focusing on Russia.
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Her further interests are Ethics in Computer Science Research and different topics of Applied Cryptography for Protocol Security.
Room IZ 209 A
a.dirksen[at]tu-braunschweig.de
+49 531/391-2270
@z4lem
Task
As part of an ongoing research project, we are looking for a person to support us in the area of web crawling. For this purpose, various tools are to be developed/tested.
The context of the project can be found HERE.
Requirements:
Java / Python / JavaScript, Debian as development environment / familiarity with Wireshark
Duration
Initially 3 or 6 months by arrangement, cross-semester assignment desired.
If there are suitable ideas, projects can also be realized as part of the study program (project work/thesis)
Network Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: A Cautionary Tale for Internet Freedom
Reethika Ramesh, Ram Sundara Raman, Apurva Virkud, Alexandra Dirksen, Armin Huremagic, David Fifield Dirk Rodenburg, Rod Hynes, Doug Madory, Roya Ensafi
To appear at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX'23)
LogPicker: Strengthening Certificate Transparency Against Covert Adversaries
Alexandra Dirksen, David Klein, Robert Michael, Tilman Stehr, Konrad Rieck and Martin Johns.
Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS'21)
Towards Enabling Secure Web-based Cloud Services using Client-side Encryption
Martin Johns, Alexandra Dirksen
Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Cloud Computing Security (CCSW’20)
Integrating Ethics: Panel Discussion about Ethical Oversight in Computer Science
- STS-hub Germany 2023 | Circulations
LogPicker: Strengthening Certificate Transparency against Covert Adversaries
- IETF 116, PEARG (virtual)
- PETS'21, Gather.town (virtual)
Towards enabling Secure Web-Based Cloud Services using Client-Side Encryption
- CCSW'21, Gather.town (virtual) [Slides]
A Blockchain Picture Book [Video]
- 35C3, 29.12.2018, Leipzig, Germany
- DMZ Europe, 08.11.2018, Stuttgart, Germany
Year | Conference |
2024 | Euro S&P |
2023 | S&P, Euro S&P, ARES |
2022 | ACSAC, ARES, S&P, Webconf |
2021 | ACSAC, CODASPY S&P, EU S&P, WWW |
2020 | Webconf, Euro S&P, ACSAC |
2019 | ACSAC, CODASPY, SAC |
2018 | CODASPY, SAC, ACSAC |