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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I am looking for two post-docs to join two projects in the theme of Meta-data Privacy Systems and Networks. The post-docs are homed in the School of Informatics, University
of Edinburgh where, under my supervision, we will investigate meta-data and data privacy techniques as building blocks/primitives to realize an “engineered privacy layer” that can be embedded into the Internet and communications networks in general.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The post-docs will be a part of---and have the opportunity to interact and potentially collaborate with---the Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trust group with over 15 core
faculty members and 40+ Post-docs, PhD students, and affiliated faculty spanning a broad range of theoretical and applied topics in security, privacy, and trust. For more about the group please see: edin.ac/3mIDdqN.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">If you would like to have a casual chat to find out more before applying or have any questions please get in touch with me (t.elahi@ed.ac.uk).<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">To learn more about my research interests please see: edin.ac/2KUmT93.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Early applications will be considered as they arrive. The deadline for both positions is 15/1/2021 17:00 GMT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Some brief information about the two projects with links to further details follow:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">1) "Integrating Meta-data Privacy into Networked Applications through ‘Add-On’ Anonymous Communication Networks"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The aim of this project is to investigate how effectively and efficiently anonymous communication networks (ACN) primitives (at the network and applications layers) can
act as “add-ons” between applications that do not have privacy built-in by design (non-PbD apps) and the Internet at large.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This project will rigorously develop and extend on the current folk wisdom that to add anonymity or privacy properties to a non-PbD system, the addition of sending all
traffic through an ACN is sufficient. It will provide a nuanced and technical approach to integrating anonymous networks, and the primitives they are built on, to systems that are not originally privacy-aware. The approach will be to investigate and extend
privacy primitives that enable routing, path selection, and traffic shaping and compose the result into an “engineered privacy-layer”.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Duration: 18 Months
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Start: March 1st, 2021 (flexible)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">More Information: edin.ac/3rnDdAb (apply by 15/1/2021)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">2) "Well-behaved Anonymous Communication Networks"<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Mass surveillance of email and web browsing traffic is a critical and growing threat to individual and at-risk groups' online security and privacy. In response, Anonymous
Communication Networks (ACNs) like Tor and Mix networks secure communications on the Internet against even the most sophisticated and powerful adversaries.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">However, it is a challenge to optimally tune ACNs by the security non-expert system administrator in real world settings. Misconfiguration may lead to catastrophic failures
of privacy and performance degradation that will erode trust in ACNs and hamper their adoption.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">This project will investigate novel approaches combining engineering principles and PETS techniques to designing, tuning, and operating ACNs at scale. The resulting systems
and techniques will contribute towards our “engineered privacy-layer” vision.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Duration 24 Months
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Start: March 1st (flexible)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">More Information: edin.ac/34AKDpZ (apply by 15/1/2021)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Stay safe and be healthy,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Tariq Elahi<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Assistant Professor<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">School of Informatics<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">University of Edinburgh<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="DefaultFontHxMailStyle"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">UK<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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