Ian Goldberg's PhD Thesis

This is the distribution page of my PhD thesis, ``A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet''.

The table of contents is below. You can now download the submitted version (150 pages).

Part I: Privacy-Enhancing Technologies

Chapter 1: Background

1.1: Definitions

1.2: Motivation

1.3: Abuse

Chapter 2: Classification of Technologies

Chapter 3: Related Work

3.1: Past

3.2: Present

3.3: Future

Part II: A Pseudonymous Communications Infrastructure for the Internet

Chapter 4: The Nymity Slider

4.1: The levels of nymity

4.2: Properties of the Nymity Slider

Chapter 5: Design Goals

5.1: Overview of Threats

5.2: Goals

5.3: Tradeoffs

Chapter 6: Design Methodology

6.1: The IP Wormhole

6.2: The Network Information Database

6.3: Application-Level Proxies

6.4: Completing the PIP Network: Adding Pseudonymity

Chapter 7: Privacy Protection for Servers

7.1: The Difficulty of Naming

7.2: Details of the Basic Mechanism

7.3: Cleaning Up

7.4: Adding Robustness

7.5: Bi-directional Privacy Protection

Part III: Analysis

Chapter 8: Analysis

8.1: Client Issues

8.2: Network Issues

8.3: AIP Issues

Chapter 9: Conclusions

9.1: Contributions

9.2: A Final Word