Dr Steven Murdoch

Principal Research Fellow, Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL)

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Principal Research Fellow, Information Security Research Group, Department of Computer Science, UCL
Visiting Researcher in the Security Group, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge

Dr Murdoch is a Principal Research Fellow in the Information Security Research Group of the Department of Computer Science at University College London. He is also a visiting researcher in the Security Group of the University of Cambridge, based in the Computer Laboratory, a bye-fellow of Christ's College, Security Architect at the VASCOInnovation Center, Cambridge, and a member of the Tor Project.

His research interests include

  • Side-channels, covert channels, watermarking and steganography
  • Operating system and network security
  • Data collection and visualisation techniques
  • Software engineering, maintainability and reverse-engineering
  • Cryptography and security protocols
  • Distributed databases, filesystems and versioning
  • Smartcards and financial security
  • Privacy, anonymity and traffic analysis
  • Structured information formats (XML, SGML, LDAP, etc.) and markup languages
  • Physical security and optical document security