AlPACa
2008
Workshop on
Applications of Private and Anonymous Communications
(in conjunction with Securecomm 2008)
September 22, 2008, Istanbul, Turkey
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Monday, September 22, 2008:
9.00 AlPACa workshop starts
Keynote speech:
Title: "Trivial leaks
are often the most difficult ones"
Speaker: Tuomas Aura,
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
Abstract: Technical
research on anonymity and privacy has long focused
on strong anonymity mechanisms that hide a specific aspect of the user
identity against a carefully defined attacker. They may, for example,
hide a node's the IP address from online servers or its MAC address
from the local access points. In this talk, I will discuss some ways in
which computers reveal the identity or affiliation of the user
regardless of the presence of such anonymity mechanisms. Applications,
data formats and network protocols make use of unique identifiers in so
many ways that it is very difficult to avoid leaking something.
Examples will be shown of how digital documents reveal their author and
mobile users leave a trail of identifiers. I will argue that such
trivial leaks need to be prevented first, before it makes sense to
deploy strong anonymity mechanisms, and invite the audience to think of
solutions for this.
on strong anonymity mechanisms that hide a specific aspect of the user
identity against a carefully defined attacker. They may, for example,
hide a node's the IP address from online servers or its MAC address
from the local access points. In this talk, I will discuss some ways in
which computers reveal the identity or affiliation of the user
regardless of the presence of such anonymity mechanisms. Applications,
data formats and network protocols make use of unique identifiers in so
many ways that it is very difficult to avoid leaking something.
Examples will be shown of how digital documents reveal their author and
mobile users leave a trail of identifiers. I will argue that such
trivial leaks need to be prevented first, before it makes sense to
deploy strong anonymity mechanisms, and invite the audience to think of
solutions for this.
Coffee break
Paper session:
Kevin Bauer, Damon McCoy, Dirk Grunwald, and Douglas Sicker.
BitBlender: Light-Weight Anonymity for BitTorrent
Yoshifumi Manabe and
Tatsuaki Okamoto.
Anonymous return route information for onion based mix-nets
Anonymous return route information for onion based mix-nets
Sepideh Fouladgar and
Hossam Afifi.
Scalable Privacy Protecting Scheme through Distributed RFID Tag Identification
Scalable Privacy Protecting Scheme through Distributed RFID Tag Identification
Joss Wright and Susan
Stepney.
Enforcing Behaviour with Anonymity
Enforcing Behaviour with Anonymity
12.00 End of paper session / AlPACa
Lunch
13.30 Sosoc workshop starts
(note that with a single registration (AlPACa / SOSOC) one can attend both workshops)