DIMACS Working Group on Measuring Anonymity

May 30 - 31, 2013
DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Nikita Borisov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, nikita at illinois.edu

Matthew Wright, University of Texas at Arlington, mwright at uta.edu

Workshop Program:

Thursday, May 30, 2013

 8:15 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:30  Overview and Existing Work

 9:00 -  9:10  Nikita Borisov and Matthew Wright: Introduction 

 9:10 -  9:40  Roger Dingledine: Overview of Tor 

 9:400 - 9:50  Dogan Kesdogan, Vinh Pham: Tor is running -- why do we need research? 
    
 9:50 - 10:10  Nikita Borisov and Matthew Wright: Metrics that are commonly used today 
    
10:10 - 10:25  Paul Syverson: Entropy and its Drawbacks 

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30  Recent Perspectives  (Notes from the session) 

11:00 - 11:15  Aaron Johnson, Chris Wacek, Rob Jansen, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson: Traffic Correlation on Tor: Models, Metrics, and Results
    
11:15 - 11:30  Rajiv Bagai: A Graphical Framework for Representing Anonymity Metrics
    
11:30 - 11:50  George Danezis: Troncoso-Danezis Anonymity Measurement 
    
11:50 - 12:30  Panel Discussion

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  2:10  Director's Welcome 
               Rebecca Wright, Director of DIMACS

 2:10 -  3:30  Information Theoretic and Language-based Approaches (Notes from the session) 

 2:10 -  2:25  Parv Venkitasubramaniam: Anonymity in Tor-like systems under Timing Analysis: An Information Theoretic Perspective
    
 2:25 -  2:40  Kostas Chatzikokolakis: Information theory and decision theory to measure information leakage
    
 2:40 -  2:55  Aslan Askarov and Stephen Chong: Towards Language-Based Network Anonymity
    
 2:55 -  3:25  Panel Discussion

 3:30 -  4:00  Break

 4:00 -  5:30  Using Differential Privacy (Notes from the session) 

 4:00 -  4:15  Catuscia Palamidessi: Differential privacy and anonymity
   
 4:15 -  4:30  George Danezis: Measuring anonymity: a few thoughts and a differentially private bound
    
 4:30 -  4:45  Scott E. Coull: How (Not) to Apply Differential Privacy in Anonymity Networks
    
 4:45 -  5:30  Panel Discussion

 5:30          Group Dinner at Rafferty's

Friday, May 31, 2013

 8:15 -  9:00  Breakfast and Registration

 9:00 - 10:30  Systems, Tor-based Evaluation Tools, and Break-out Sessions 1

 9:00 -  9:15  David Isaac Wolinsky, Ewa Syta, and Bryan Ford: Hang With Your Buddies to Resist Intersection Attacks
    
 9:15 -  9:25  Damon McCoy: ExperimenTor
    
 9:25 -  9:35  Rob Jansen: Shadow
    
 9:35 -  9:40  Tariq Elahi: COGS
  
 9:40 - 10:30  Break-out Sessions 1

10:30 - 11:00  Break

11:00 - 12:30  Break-out Sessions 2

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch

 2:00 -  3:30  Full group discussions
               Roger Dingledine:  Overview of Tor's Status and Open Questions

 3:30 -  4:00  Break

 4:00 -  5:30  Finalize outcomes of the Working Group

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