Lately, I’ve been interested in traffic analysis of encrypted channels. We’ve also been doing some work on network trace anonymization as well.You can find some selected publications below.

◦Charles Wright, Lucas Ballard, Scott Coulls, Fabian Monrose, and Gerald Masson. Spot me if you can: recovering spoken phrases in encrypted VoIP conversations. To appear in Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May, 2008. (PDF)
◦Charles Wright, Lucas Ballard, Fabian Monrose, and Gerald Masson. Language Identification of Encrypted VoIP Traffic: Alejandra y Roberto or Alice and Bob? In Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, August, 2007.(PDF).
◦Charles Wright, Fabian Monrose, and Gerald Masson. On Inferring Application Protocol Behaviors in Encrypted Network Traffic. In Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR): Special issue on Machine Learning for Computer Security, volume 7, 2745-2769, 2006. (PDF)
◦Charles Wright, Fabian Monrose, and Gerald Masson. Using Visual Motifs to Classify Encrypted Traffic. In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC), 2006.(PDF)
◦Charles Wright, Fabian Monrose, and Gerald Masson. HMM Profiles for Network Traffic Classification (Extended Abstract). In Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Visualization and Data Mining for Computer Security (VizSEC/DMSEC), pages 9-15, 2004.

◦Scott Coulls, Charles Wright, Angelos Keromytis, Fabian Monrose, and Michael Reiter. Taming the Devil: Techniques of Evaluating Anonymized Network Data. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Network and Distributed Systems Security Symposium, Feb, 2008.
◦Scott Coulls, Charles Wright, Fabian Monrose, Michael Collins and Michael Reiter. On Web Browsing Privacy in Anonymized NetFlows. In Proceedings of the 16th USENIX Security Symposium, Boston, August, 2007. (PDF)
◦Scott Coulls, Charles Wright, Fabian Monrose, Michael Collins and Michael Reiter. Playing Devil's Advocate: Inferring Sensitive Information from Anonymized Traces. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Network and Distributed Systems Symposium (NDSS), pages 35-47, Feb, 2007.

◦Charles Wright, Scott Coulls , Fabian Monrose. Traffic Morphing: An efficient defense against statistical traffic analysis. In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Network and Distributed Systems Symposium (NDSS), Feb, 2009.