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