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This summer, my lab (the Measurable Security Lab, MSL) and the Center for Assurance and Research Engineering (CARE) are transitioning a community security monitoring service (called the DNSSEC Deployment Maps, https://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/dnssec/maps/ ) from the Internet Society (ISOC) to Mason.  To make this transition smooth (as it is in active use by multitudes of people worldwide) we will start off by doing a lot of systems administration, followed by some research and evolution of the service into a more holistic object-security analysis platform.  This transition will bring with it a longitudinal database of roughly 17 years of measurements and we are going to synthesize this with our own ~17-year corpus of DNSSEC measurements ( https://secspider.net/ ) and build other new systems.  This work will grow into research and publications that will build on, augment, and proceed in parallel to our existing work, like:

Osterweil, Eric, Pouyan Fotouhi Tehrani, Thomas C. Schmidt, and Matthias Wählisch. "From the Beginning: Key Transitions in the First 15 Years of DNSSEC." arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.08783 (2021).

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.08783

If anyone on this list is interested in a paid part-time position for the summer (and possibly beyond) to start off by helping to transition the existing database and stand up the measurement and online infrastructure on our systems, and/or want to hear more, please email me directly so we can discuss!

Eric