Jeffrey Knockel

Office: 337 Farris Engineering Center • Email:  • PGP Key: key

Teaching

• Fall 2009: CS 341 "Computer Architecture"
• Spring 2010: CS 357 "Declarative Programming"
• Spring 2012: Malware Analysis Seminar Stuff

Research

I'm advised by Jed Crandall and Jared Saia. I'm working with them on censorship detection and circumvention. I'm also interested in Web security.

Publications

• Jeffrey Knockel, Jedidiah R. Crandall, and Jared Saia. Three Researchers, Five Conjectures: An Empirical Analysis of TOM-Skype Censorship and Surveillance. In the Proceedings of the USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet. (FOCI 2011). San Francisco, California. August 2011. (pdf) (slides) (supplement)
• Jeffrey Knockel, George Saad and Jared Saia. Self-Healing of Byzantine Faults. Under submission. (pdf)
• Jeffrey Knockel and Jedidiah R. Crandall. Protecting Free and Open Communications on the Internet Against Man-in-the-Middle Attacks on Third-Party Software: We're FOCI'd. In the Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet. (FOCI 2012). Bellevue, Washington. August 2012. (pdf) (slides)
• Nicholas Aase, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Alvaro Diaz, Jeffrey Knockel, Jorge Ocana Molinero, Jared Saia, Dan Wallach, and Tao Zhu. Whiskey, Weed, and Wukan on the World Wide Web: On Measuring Censors' Resources and Motivations. In the Proceedings of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet. (FOCI 2012). Bellevue, Washington. August 2012. (pdf)

Talks

• Invited talk. Jeffrey Knockel. Chinese Keyword Censorship of Instant Messaging Programs. IEEE Annual Computer Communications Workshop. (CCW 2011). Hyannis, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. October 2011. (slides) (TOM-Skype supplement) (Sina UC supplement)
• Invited talk. Jeffrey Knockel. Chinese Keyword Censorship of Instant Messaging Programs (and Work in Progress). CERI Summer Seminar Series, Sandia National Laboratories. Albuquerque, New Mexico. May 2012. (slides)
• Submitted talk. Jeffrey Knockel, Greg Wiseman. Chat Program Censorship and Surveillance in China: Tracking TOM-Skype and Sina UC. Boston Freedom in Online Communications Day. (BFOC 2013). Boston, Massachusetts. March 2013. (slides)

Other

What keywords trigger TOM-Skype censorship and surveillance? (updated daily)

What keywords trigger Sina UC censorship? (updated daily)

How does SafeConnect network access control (NAC) software open your machine to attacks?