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 |
| Anonymity and Pseudonymity |
Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms (local cached copy)
D. Chaum, Communications of the ACM, 1981 |
Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions (local cached copy)
M. Reiter, A. Rubin, ACM TISSEC, 1998 |
Mixminion: Design of a Type III Anonymous Remailer Protocol (local cached copy)
G. Danezis, R. Dingledine, N. Mathewson, IEEE SSP (Oakland) 2003 |
Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router (local cached copy)
R.Dingledine, N.Mathewson, P.Syverson, USENIX Security 2004 |
Nymble: Anonymous IP-address Blocking (local cached copy)
Peter C. Johnson, Apu Kapadia, Patrick P. Tsang, Sean W. Smith, PETS 2007 |
A Tune-up for Tor: Improving Security and Performance in the Tor Network (local cached copy)
Robin Snader, Nikita Borisov, NDSS 2008 |
Metrics for Security and Performance in Low-Latency Anonymity Networks (local cached copy)
Steven J. Murdoch, Robert N. M. Watson, PETS 2008 |
AS-awareness in Tor Path Selection (local cached copy)
Matthew Edman, Paul Syverson, CCS 2009 |
| Privacy in P2P and Social Networks |
The Sybil Attack (local cached copy)
J. Douceur, IPTPS 2002 |
Making P2P Accountable without Losing Privacy (local cached copy)
Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, C. Chris Erway, John Jannotti, Alptekin Küpçü, Anna Lysyanskaya, Eric Rachlin, WPES 2007 |
SybilLimit: A Near-Optimal Social Network Defense against Sybil Attacks (local cached copy)
Haifeng Yu, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky, Feng Xiao, Oakland 2008 |
Information Leaks in Structured Peer-to-Peer Anonymous Communication Systems (local cached copy)
Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, CCS 2008 |
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 |
SybilInfer: Detecting Sybil Nodes using Social Networks (local cached copy)
George Danezis, Prateek Mittal, NDSS 2009 |
ShadowWalker: Peer-to-peer Anonymous Communication Using Redundant Structured Topologies (local cached copy)
Prateek Mittal, Nikita Borisov, CCS 2009 |
| Traffic Analysis |
Traffic Analysis: Protocols, Attacks, Design Issues, and Open Problems (local cached copy)
Jean-François Raymond, PET 2000 |
Low-resource Routing Attacks Against Tor (local cached copy)
Kevin Bauer, Damon McCoy, Dirk Grunwald, Tadayoshi Kohno, Douglas Sicker, WPES 2007 |
How Much Anonymity does Network Latency Leak? (local cached copy)
Nicholas Hopper, Eugene Y. Vasserman, Eric Chan-Tin, CCS 2007 |
Denial of Service or Denial of Security? How Attacks on Reliability can Compromise Anonymity (local cached copy)
Nikita Borisov, George Danezis, Prateek Mittal, Parisa Tabriz, CCS 2007 |
Two-sided Statistical Disclosure Attack (local cached copy)
George Danezis, Claudia Díaz, Carmela Troncoso, PETS 2007 |
An Improved Clock-skew Measurement Technique for Revealing Hidden Services (local cached copy)
Sebastian Zander, Steven J. Murdoch, USENIX Security 2008 |
A Practical Congestion Attack on Tor Using Long Paths (local cached copy)
Nathan S. Evans, Roger Dingledine, Christian Grothoff, USENIX Security 2009 |
| Ecash and Credentials |
Efficient Attributes for Anonymous Credentials (local cached copy)
Jan Camenisch, Thomas Groß, CCS 2008 |
Blind Signatures for Untraceable Payments (local cached copy)
David Chaum, Crypto 1982 |
A Description of Protocols for Private Credentials (local cached copy)
Ariel Glenn, Ian Goldberg, Frederic Legare, Anton Stiglic, Technical Report, 2001 |
Compact E-Cash (local cached copy)
Jan Camenisch, Susan Hohenberger, Anna Lysyanskaya, Eurocrypt 2005 |
Blacklistable Anonymous Credentials: Blocking Misbehaving Users without TTPs (local cached copy)
Patrick P. Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, Sean W. Smith, CCS 2007 |
P-signatures and Noninteractive Anonymous Credentials (local cached copy)
Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, Markulf Kohlweiss, Anna Lysyanskaya, TCC 2008 |
| Private Information Retrieval |
Private Information Retrieval: An Overview And Current Trends (local cached copy)
Dmitri Asonov, ECDPvA Workshop, Informatik 2001 |
Private Information Retrieval (local cached copy)
Benny Chor, Oded Goldreich, Eyal Kushilevitz, Madhu Sudan, FOCS 1995 |
Computationally private information retrieval (local cached copy)
Benny Chor, Niv Gilboa, STOC 1997 |
On the Computational Practicality of Private Information Retrieval (local cached copy)
Radu Sion, Bogdan Carbunar, NDSS 2007 |
A Lattice-Based Computationally-Efficient Private Information Retrieval Protocol (local cached copy)
Carlos Aguilar-Melchor and Philippe Gaborit, WEWORC 2007 |
Usable PIR (local cached copy)
Peter Williams and Radu Sion, NDSS 2008 |