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[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/ My main website]
 
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/ My main website]
  
Hello. I'm another one of the students from [http://www.cam.ac.uk/
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Hello. I'm another one of the students from [http://www.cam.ac.uk/ Cambridge]. Currently I am working on a PhD in the [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/Security/ Security Group] in the [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ Computer Lab].  My main PhD topic is on secure storage of structured data, but I have also worked on a few other projects, including reverse engineering [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-592.pdf cryptographic co-processors], understanding [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/projects/currency/ currency counterfeiting prevention systems] and [http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/papers/ih04connect-4.pdf colluding in games].
Cambridge]. Currently I am working on a PhD in the
 
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/Security/ Security Group] in the
 
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/ Computer Lab].  My main PhD topic is on
 
secure storage of structured data, but I have also worked on a few
 
other projects, including reverse engineering
 
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/TechReports/UCAM-CL-TR-592.pdf cryptographic
 
co-processors], understanding
 
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/projects/currency/ currency
 
counterfeiting prevention systems] and
 
[http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/sjm217/papers/ih04connect-4.pdf
 
colluding in games].
 
  
Last year I did some work on [http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ Security
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Last year I did some work on [http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/ Security Enhanced Linux], and I am generally interested in improving OS security. One reason behind this is that I am a sysadmin for [http://www.srcf.ucam.org/ a server with 1,396 active users], each of which can run insecure CGI/PHP scripts.  So in addition to the normal security goal of keeping unauthorised users out, we also have to be very careful to partition users and prevent privilege escalation. Recently I have been looking at more conventional software vulnerabilities (buffer overflows, format strings, etc.) and writing tools to detect them in binaries. Hopefully this summer school will give me the opportunity to extend and improve these.
Enhanced Linux], and I am generally interested in improving OS
 
security. One reason behind this is that I am a sysadmin for
 
[http://www.srcf.ucam.org/ a server with 1,396 active users], each of
 
which can run insecure CGI/PHP scripts.  So in addition to the normal
 
security goal of keeping unauthorised users out, we also have to be
 
very careful to partition users and prevent privilege
 
escalation. Recently I have been looking at more conventional software
 
vulnerabilities (buffer overflows, format strings, etc.) and writing
 
tools to detect them in binaries. Hopefully this summer school will
 
give me the opportunity to extend and improve these.
 

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Steven Murdoch

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My main website

Hello. I'm another one of the students from Cambridge. Currently I am working on a PhD in the Security Group in the Computer Lab. My main PhD topic is on secure storage of structured data, but I have also worked on a few other projects, including reverse engineering cryptographic co-processors, understanding currency counterfeiting prevention systems and colluding in games.

Last year I did some work on Security Enhanced Linux, and I am generally interested in improving OS security. One reason behind this is that I am a sysadmin for a server with 1,396 active users, each of which can run insecure CGI/PHP scripts. So in addition to the normal security goal of keeping unauthorised users out, we also have to be very careful to partition users and prevent privilege escalation. Recently I have been looking at more conventional software vulnerabilities (buffer overflows, format strings, etc.) and writing tools to detect them in binaries. Hopefully this summer school will give me the opportunity to extend and improve these.