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DECENT: A Decentralized Architecture for Enforcing Privacy in Online Social Networks
Sonia Jahid, Shirin Nilizadeh, Prateek Mittal +2
A multitude of privacy breaches, both accidental and malicious, have prompted users to distrust centralized providers of online social networks (OSNs) and investigate decentralized…
X-Vine: Secure and Pseudonymous Routing Using Social Networks
Prateek Mittal, Matthew Caesar, Nikita Borisov
Distributed hash tables suffer from several security and privacy vulnerabilities, including the problem of Sybil attacks. Existing social network-based solutions to mitigate the Sy…
Stealthy Traffic Analysis of Low-Latency Anonymous Communication Using Throughput Fingerprinting
Prateek Mittal, Ahmed Khurshid, Joshua Juen +2
Anonymity systems such as Tor aim to enable users to communicate in a manner that is untraceable by adversaries that control a small number of machines. To provide efficient servic…
Website Detection Using Remote Traffic Analysis
Xun Gong, Negar Kiyavash, Nabíl Schear +1
Recent work in traffic analysis has shown that traffic patterns leaked through side channels can be used to recover important semantic information. For instance, attackers can find…
Stegobot: construction of an unobservable communication network leveraging social behavior
Shishir Nagaraja, Amir Houmansadr, Pratch Piyawongwisal +3
We propose the construction of an unobservable communications network using social networks. The communication endpoints are vertices on a social network. Probabilistically unobser…
Securing Tor Tunnels under the Selective-DoS Attack
Anupam Das, Nikita Borisov
Anonymous communication systems are subject to selective denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Selective DoS attacks lower anonymity as they force paths to be rebuilt multiple times to…