Philipp Winter

Validating data in Go # Mat Ryer’s approach to validating data in Go is simple and elegant.

Emotional management # Engineers enjoy discussing text editors, tech stacks, and note taking apps but barely anyone ever talks about emotional management.

Moving from academia to industry # I left academia in 2015.

Insightful questions to ask at interviews # I find that the following questions make people think, both as interviewer and as interviewee.

Intelligent Design Enables Architectural Evolution # Looking at the Internet’s development over the last decades, we have seen plenty of innovation on the access and application layer.

LAP: Lightweight Anonymity and Privacy # This paper from Security & Privacy 2012 proposes a new network-layer anonymity system called Lightweight Anonymity and Privacy (LAP).

Enlisting ISPs to Improve Online Privacy: IP Address Mixing by Default # This paper proposes the address hiding protocol (AHP), a relatively simple mechanism that is meant to improve Internet users’ privacy.

Opening up academic research # In academia it is common to consider research projects secret until publication.

A Messy State of the Union: Taming the Composite State Machines of TLS # This paper is about the state machines of TLS implementations such as OpenSSL and NSS.

Detecting Internet Filtering from Geographic Time Series # This paper talks about detecting Internet filtering by analysing usage statistics such as the ones provided by The Tor Project.

A First Look at Anycast CDN Traffic # I’m a little bit out of my comfort zone by reviewing a network measurement paper this time.

An Internet Architecture Based on the Principle of Least Privilege # This paper presents a novel Internet architecture meant to replace IP.

Bitcoin over Tor isn’t a good idea # This paper claims that Bitcoin and Tor don’t play well together, which leads to a number of weaknesses that limit, or even eliminate, the anonymity provided by Tor.