Philipp Winter
Department of Computer Science
Karlstad University
651 88 KARLSTAD
philipp.winter@kau.se
Please consider using my public key to encrypt e-mail conversations.
My fingerprint is: 2A9F 5FBF 714D 42A9 F82C 0FEB 268C D15D 2D08 1E16.
About me
I am a PhD student in the PriSec group at Karlstad University. Before that, I obtained my BSc and MSc at the University of Applied Sciences, Upper Austria. I am supervised by Stefan Lindskog and Simone Fischer-Hübner. My CV is available here.
I spend most of my time working with anonymity and censorship systems. In particular, I am interested in the Tor network which provides people with anonymity on the Internet. Did you know that it is quite easy to contribute to Tor? In addition, I have some experience in the following fields:
- Applied machine learning
- Anomaly and intrusion detection
If you are interested in censorship systems, you might find the CensorBib I am maintaining helpful. It is an archive similar to Free Haven's popular ``Selected Papers in Anonymity'' but with its focus on censorship rather than on anonymity.
Open Science
I am a strong advocate of open science. I believe that scientific knowledge has to be freely available. To anyone. Without costs and without borders. Anyone who is interested in a topic must have the possibility to use the entire body of human knowledge to satisfy her or his curiosity.
Right now, we are far away from this goal. Researchers who are financed by public money give their work to publishers for free (in fact, they even have to pay!). Then, the work gets reviewed by other researchers who do this in their free time; just so that the final research paper is locked behind a paywall by the publisher. Only available to institutions who are willing and able to pay absurd amounts of money to have access.
For some more information about the topic, I recommend you this book review of ``The Access Principle'' and this proposal to reboot the CS publication process. If you agree with these beliefs, please consider signing this protest against the business practices of Elsevier. You can easily contribute to open science by putting all your papers on your web page and/or on arXiv.
Publications
Journals
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Winter, P., Lampesberger, H., Zeilinger, M., Hermann, E.
Anomalieerkennung in Computernetzen.
Datenschutz und Datensicherheit (DuD) 35, 4 (2011), 235-239.
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Conference Proceedings
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Winter, P., Lampesberger, H., Zeilinger, M., Hermann, E. On
Detecting Abrupt Changes in Network Entropy Time Series. In
Communications and Multimedia Security (Ghent, 2011), Springer, pp. 194-205.
Best presentation award[bibtex]
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Lampesberger, H., Winter, P., Zeilinger, M., Hermann, E. An On-line Learning
Statistical Model to Detect Malicious Web Requests. In
Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (London, 2011),
Springer. [(to appear)]
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Winter, P., Hermann, E., Zeilinger, M. Inductive Intrusion
Detection in Flow-Based Network Data Using One-Class Support Vector Machines. In
New Technologies, Mobility and Security (Paris, 2011),
IEEE. [bibtex]
Theses
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Winter, P. Inductive Intrusion Detection in Flow-Based Network
Data Using One-Class Support Vector Machines. Master's thesis, Upper Austria University of
Applied Sciences, Campus Hagenberg, July 2010
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