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. More...
Further, she is a leading part of an interdisciplinary project, that works on approaches for the integration of ethical reviewing in Computer Science.
Room IZ 209 A
a.dirksen[at]tu-braunschweig.de
+49 531/391-2270
@z4lem
Don’t Patch the Researcher, Patch the Game: A Systematic Approach for Responsible Research via Federated IRBs
Alexandra Dirksen, Sebastian Giessler, Hendrik Erz, Martin Johns, Tobias Fiebig
To be included in Proceedings of the New Security Paradigms Workshop 2024.
Network Responses to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in 2022: A Cautionary Tale for Internet Freedom
(Best Practical Award, FOCI'24)
Reethika Ramesh, Ram Sundara Raman, Apurva Virkud, Alexandra Dirksen, Armin Huremagic, David Fifield Dirk Rodenburg, Rod Hynes, Doug Madory, Roya Ensafi
Proc. of the 32rd 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)
The Internet as a Critical Infrastructure [Slides] [Video]
▪ EuroDIG 2023 (virtual), Internet Fragmentation | Panel session on Risks and Resilience
Taming Rouge Ethics: The Case for a Unified and Fair IRB Procedure [Abstract]
▪ Revaluing European Research Infrastructures Workshop 2023, University of Vienna
Panel: How different forms of infrastructuring matter: Values, evaluations, and the scientific self.o
Integrating Ethics: Panel Discussion about Ethical Oversight in Computer Science
▪ STS-hub Germany 2023 | Circulations
LogPicker: Strengthening Certificate Transparency against Covert Adversaries
▪ PETS 2021, Gather.town (virtual) [Slides]
▪ IETF 116, 2021, PEARG (virtual)
Towards enabling Secure Web-Based Cloud Services using Client-Side Encryption
▪ CCSW 2021, Gather.town (virtual) [Slides]
A Blockchain Picture Book
▪ 35C3 2018, Leipzig, Germany [Video]
▪ DMZ Europe 2018, Stuttgart, Germany [Slides]
Year | Conference |
2024 | Euro S&P, NDSS |
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 |