CS 858: Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies — Winter 2011

Suggested Reading List

This is a list of papers we will discuss in class. Feel free to suggest any others you may find appropriate. A good starting point for finding papers in this area is Free Haven's Selected Papers in Anonymity site.

Privacy
'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy (local cached copy)
Daniel J. Solove, San Diego Law Review, Vol. 44, 2007
A Classification for Privacy Techniques (local cached copy)
Carlisle Adams, University of Ottawa Law & Technology Journal 3, 2006
PETs for the Internet
Privacy-enhancing Technologies for the Internet (local cached copy)
Ian Goldberg, David Wagner, Eric Brewer, IEEE COMPCON 1997
Privacy-enhancing technologies for the Internet, II: Five years later (local cached copy)
Ian Goldberg, PET 2002
Privacy-enhancing technologies for the Internet III: Ten years later (local cached copy)
Ian Goldberg, "Digital Privacy: Theory, Technologies and Practices", Alessandro Acquisti, Stefanos Gritzalis, Costas Lambrinoudakis, and Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, editors, 2007
Anonymous and Pseudonymous Communication
Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms (local cached copy)
David Chaum, Communications of the ACM, 1981
Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (local cached copy)
Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, Paul Syverson, USENIX Security 2004
Scalable Onion Routing with Torsk (local cached copy)
Jon McLachlan, Andrew Tran, Nicholas Hopper, Yongdae Kim, CCS 2009
ShadowWalker: Peer-to-peer Anonymous Communication using Redundant Structured Topologies (local cached copy)
Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, CCS 2009
Balancing the Shadows (local cached copy)
Max Schuchard, Alex Dean, Victor Heorhiadi, Yongdae Kim, Nicholas Hopper, WPES 2010
Building Incentives into Tor (local cached copy)
Tsuen-Wan Ngan, Roger Dingledine, Dan Wallach, FC 2010
Recruiting New Tor Relays with BRAIDS (local cached copy)
Rob Jansen, Nicholas Hopper, Yongdae Kim, CCS 2010
Traffic Analysis
Traffic Analysis: Protocols, Attacks, Design Issues, and Open Problems (local cached copy)
Jean-François Raymond, PET 2000
A Practical Congestion Attack on Tor Using Long Paths (local cached copy)
Nathan S. Evans, Roger Dingledine, Christian Grothoff, USENIX Security 2009
On the risks of serving whenever you surf: Vulnerabilities in Tor's blocking resistance design (local cached copy)
Jon McLachlan, Nicholas J. Hopper, WPES 2009
Preventing Active Timing Attacks in Low-Latency Anonymous Communication (local cached copy)
Aaron Johnson, Joan Feigenbaum, Paul Syverson, PETS 2010
Impact of Network Topology on Anonymity and Overhead in Low-Latency Anonymity Networks (local cached copy)
Claudia Diaz, Steven J. Murdoch, Carmela Troncoso, PETS 2010
Privacy in P2P and Social Networks
The Sybil Attack (local cached copy)
John R. Douceur, IPTPS 2002
SybilInfer: Detecting Sybil Nodes using Social Networks (local cached copy)
George Danezis, Prateek Mittal, NDSS 2009
De-anonymizing Social Networks (local cached copy)
Arvind Narayanan, Vitaly Shmatikov, Oakland 2009
DSybil: Optimal Sybil-Resistance for Recommendation Systems (local cached copy)
Haifeng Yu, Chenwei Shi, Michael Kaminsky, Phillip B. Gibbons, Feng Xiao, Oakland 2009
Vanish: Increasing Data Privacy with Self-Destructing Data (local cached copy)
Roxana Geambasu, Tadayoshi Kohno, Amit A. Levy, Henry M. Levy, USENIX Security 2009
Defeating Vanish with Low-Cost Sybil Attacks Against Large DHTs (local cached copy)
Scott Wolchok, Owen S. Hofmann, Nadia Heninger, Edward W. Felten, J. Alex Halderman, Christopher J. Rossbach, Brent Waters, Emmett Witchel, NDSS 2010
In Search of an Anonymous and Secure Lookup: Attacks on Structured Peer-to-peer Anonymous Communication Systems (local cached copy)
Qiyan Wang, Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, CCS 2010
Anonymous Blacklisting
PEREA: towards practical TTP-free revocation in anonymous authentication (local cached copy)
Patrick P. Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, Sean W. Smith, CCS 2008
Making a Nymbler Nymble using VERBS (local cached copy)
Ryan Henry, Kevin Henry, Ian Goldberg, PETS 2010
Jack: Scalable Accumulator-based Nymble System (local cached copy)
Zi Lin, Nicholas Hopper, WPES 2010
BNymble: More anonymous blacklisting at almost no cost (local cached copy)
Peter Lofgren, Nicholas Hopper, FC 2011
Database and Web Privacy
Private Information Retrieval: An Overview And Current Trends (local cached copy)
Dmitri Asonov, ECDPvA Workshop, Informatik 2001
Revisiting the Computational Practicality of Private Information Retrieval (local cached copy)
Femi Olumofin, Ian Goldberg, FC 2011
An Analysis of Private Browsing Modes in Modern Browsers (local cached copy)
Gaurav Aggarwal, Elie Bursztein, Collin Jackson, Dan Boneh, USENIX Security 2010
How Unique Is Your Web Browser? (local cached copy)
Peter Eckersley, PETS 2010
Certified Lies: Detecting and Defeating Government Interception Attacks Against SSL (local cached copy)
Christopher Soghoian, Sid Stamm, FC 2011
Privacy-Preserving Computation
Protocols for Secure Computations (local cached copy)
Andrew Yao, FOCS 1982
Secure Multiparty Computation Goes Live (local cached copy)
Peter Bogetoft, Dan Lund Christensen, Ivan Damgård, Martin Geisler, Thomas Jakobsen, Mikkel Krøigaard, Janus Dam Nielsen, Jesper Buus Nielsen, Kurt Nielsen, Jakob Pagter, Michael Schwartzbach, Tomas Toft, FC 2009
SEPIA: Privacy-Preserving Aggregation of Multi-Domain Network Events and Statistics (local cached copy)
Martin Burkhart, Mario Strasser, Dilip Many, Xenofontas Dimitropoulos, USENIX Security 2010
PrETP: Privacy-Preserving Electronic Toll Pricing (local cached copy)
Josep Balasch, Alfredo Rial, Carmela Troncoso, Bart Preneel, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Christophe Geuens, USENIX Security 2010
TASTY: Tool for Automating Secure Two-partY computations (local cached copy)
Wilko Henecka, Stefan Koegl, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Thomas Schneider, Immo Wehrenberg , CCS 2010