Wilfried Mayer

is researcher at SBA Research.

wmayer@sba-research.org
+43 (1) 505 36 88

425DE38D0E79DC73A03737C493700537668BDC08

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Research Interests

Wilfried’s research interests are empirical research methods for Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS). This includes Internet measurement technologies, secure deployments of TLS and the Tor low-latency anonymity system. He is also interested in technical measures used for net neutrality (violations) and transparency in the Internet.

Bio

Wilfried received a master´s degree in Software Engineering and Internet Computing at the TU Wien and is currently working on finishing his PhD. He is part-time lecturer at TU Wien and other Universities of Applied Sciences in Austria.

Publications

Top Publications:

"I Have No Idea What I'm Doing" - On the Usability of Deploying HTTPS (2017)
- INPROCEEDINGStruetrue
- Katharina Krombholz and Wilfried Mayer and Martin Schmiedecker and Edgar R. Weippl
- 26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2017)
BibTeX PDF Slides

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   author = {Katharina Krombholz and Wilfried Mayer and Martin Schmiedecker and {Edgar R.} Weippl},
   authorhotlist = {true},
   sbahotlist = {true},
   title = {"I Have No Idea What I'm Doing" - On the Usability of Deploying HTTPS},
   booktitle = {26th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 2017)},
   year = {2017},
   month = {8},
   pdf = {https://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/sec17-krombholz.pdf},
   link_slides = {https://www.slideshare.net/SBAResearch/i-have-no-idea-what-im-doing-on-the-usability-of-deploying-https},
}
No Need for Black Chambers: Testing TLS in the E-mail Ecosystem at Large (2015)
- ARTICLE--
- Wilfried Mayer and Aaron Zauner and Martin Schmiedecker and Markus Huber
- arXiv preprint
BibTeX PDF Data

@ARTICLE{Mayer2015Need,
   author = {Wilfried Mayer and Aaron Zauner and Martin Schmiedecker and Markus Huber},
   title = {No Need for Black Chambers: Testing TLS in the E-mail Ecosystem at Large},
   journal = {arXiv preprint},
   year = {2015},
   month = {10},
   pdf = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1510.08646},
   link_data = {https://scans.io/study/sba-email},
}
No Need for Black Chambers: Testing TLS in the E-mail Ecosystem at Large (2016)
- INPROCEEDINGS--
- Wilfried Mayer and Aaron Zauner and Martin Schmiedecker and Markus Huber
- International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES)
BibTeX PDF Data Slides

@INPROCEEDINGS{Mayer2016Need,
   author = {Wilfried Mayer and Aaron Zauner and Martin Schmiedecker and Markus Huber},
   title = {No Need for Black Chambers: Testing TLS in the E-mail Ecosystem at Large},
   booktitle = {International Conference on Availability,
   Reliability and Security (ARES)},
   year = {2016},
   pdf = {https://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/scanTLS.pdf},
   link_data = {https://scans.io/study/sba-email},
   link_slides = {http://www.slideshare.net/SBAResearch/no-need-for-black-chambers},
}
TLScompare: Crowdsourcing Rules for HTTPS Everywhere (2016)
- INPROCEEDINGS--
- Wilfried Mayer and Martin Schmiedecker
- Workshop on Empirical Research Methods in Information Security (ERMIS)
BibTeX PDF Slides

@INPROCEEDINGS{Mayer2016TLScompare,
   author = {Wilfried Mayer and Martin Schmiedecker},
   title = {TLScompare: Crowdsourcing Rules for HTTPS Everywhere},
   booktitle = {Workshop on Empirical Research Methods in Information Security (ERMIS)},
   year = {2016},
   month = {4},
   pdf = {https://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/crowdsourcing_preprint.pdf},
   link_slides = {http://www.slideshare.net/SBAResearch/tlscompareorg-crowdsourcing-rules-for-https-everywhere},
}
Securing the Internet, One HTTP 200 OK at a Time (2017)
- ARTICLE-true
- Wilfried Mayer and Katharina Krombholz and Martin Schmiedecker and Edgar R. Weippl
- USENIX login, Winter 2017
BibTeX PDF

@ARTICLE{Mayer2017Securing,
   author = {Wilfried Mayer and Katharina Krombholz and Martin Schmiedecker and {Edgar R.} Weippl},
   authorhotlist = {true},
   title = {Securing the Internet,
   One HTTP 200 OK at a Time},
   journal = {USENIX login,
   Winter 2017},
   year = {2017},
   month = {12},
   pdf = {https://www.usenix.org/publications/login/winter2017/mayer},
   volume = {42},
   publisher = {USENIX},
}
Turning Active TLS Scanning to Eleven (2017)
- INPROCEEDINGS-true
- Wilfried Mayer and Martin Schmiedecker
- IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP Sec)
BibTeX PDF Source Slides

@INPROCEEDINGS{Mayer2017Turning,
   author = {Wilfried Mayer and Martin Schmiedecker},
   authorhotlist = {true},
   title = {Turning Active TLS Scanning to Eleven},
   booktitle = {IFIP International Information Security and Privacy Conference (IFIP Sec)},
   year = {2017},
   pdf = {https://www.sba-research.org/wp-content/uploads/publications/ifipSec2017_preprint.pdf},
   link_source = {https://github.com/WilfriedMayer/turning-active-tls-scanning-to-eleven},
   link_slides = {https://www.slideshare.net/SBAResearch/turning-active-tls-scanning-to-eleven},
}
A Framework for Monitoring Net Neutrality (2018)
- INPROCEEDINGS--
- Wilfried Mayer and Thomas Schreiber and Edgar R. Weippl
- 13th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2018)
BibTeX PDF

@INPROCEEDINGS{Mayer2018Framework,
   author = {Wilfried Mayer and Thomas Schreiber and {Edgar R.} Weippl},
   title = {A Framework for Monitoring Net Neutrality},
   booktitle = {13th International Conference on Availability,
   Reliability and Security (ARES 2018)},
   year = {2018},
   month = {8},
   pdf = {201808 - WMayer - CR_netneutrality.pdf},
}