Cryptocracy Podcast Episode 1

This week I am starting a weekly podcast: The Cryptocracy Podcast brings you news, announcements, interviews, and narration of paper abstracts on privacy enhancing technologies, cryptography, security, and electronic society.

In this first episode I reading some abstracts from the Freehaven anonymity bibliography of which I am an editor. The papers I have selected this week span a variety of topics in privacy enhancing technology, and were published within the past two years.

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A list of papers mentioned in this week’s podcast after the jump.

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This week I read the following abstracts. The metadata and comments reproduced here are copied from the Freehaven anonymity bibliography. For up to date information please refer back to this source.

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    Sampled Traffic Analysis by Internet-Exchange-Level Adversaries (PDF) (Cached: PDF)
    by Steven J. Murdoch and Piotr Zieli?ski.
    In the Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET 2007), Ottawa, Canada, June 2007. (BibTeX entry)·

    Examines efficacy of traffic analysis against a low-latency anonymity network by an adversary who controls Ineternet exchanges, and who can only sample a fraction of traffic.

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    Nymble: Anonymous IP-address Blocking (PDF)
    by Peter C. Johnson, Apu Kapadia, Patrick P. Tsang, and Sean W. Smith.
    In the Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET 2007), Ottawa, Canada, June 2007. (BibTeX entry)·

    Describes Nymble, a system that allows services to block anonymous users that misbehave, without making their transactions linkable.

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    The Economics of Mass Surveillance and the Questionable Value of Anonymous Communications (PDF) (Cached: PDF)
    by George Danezis and Bettina Wittneben.
    In the Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2006), Cambridge, UK, June 2006. (BibTeX entry)·

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    Locating Hidden Servers (PDF) (Cached: PDF)
    by Lasse Øverlier and Paul Syverson.
    In the Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2006. (BibTeX entry)·

    Motivates and describes Tor’s entry guard design.

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    How to win the clonewars: efficient periodic n-times anonymous authentication (PDF) (Cached: PDF)
    by Jan Camenisch, Susan Hohenberger, Markulf Kohlweiss, Anna Lysyanskaya, and Mira Meyerovich.
    In the Proceedings of the 13th ACM conference on Computer and communications security (CCS 2006), Alexandria, Virginia, USA, 2006, pages 201-210. (BibTeX entry)·

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