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)
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)
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)
In the Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS 2006), Cambridge, UK, June 2006. (BibTeX entry)· -
Locating Hidden Servers (PDF) (Cached: PDF)
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)
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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