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Update of /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/wupss04
In directory moria.mit.edu:/home2/arma/work/freehaven/doc/wupss04
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usability.tex
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usability.bib
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more tweaks; break cites into .bib file
--- NEW FILE: usability.bib ---
@InProceedings{sybil,
author = "John Douceur",
title = {{The Sybil Attack}},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st International Peer To Peer Systems Workshop (IPTPS)",
month = {Mar},
year = 2002,
}
@inproceedings{econymics,
title = {On the Economics of Anonymity},
author = {Alessandro Acquisti and Roger Dingledine and Paul Syverson},
booktitle = {Financial Cryptography},
year = {2003},
month = {Jan},
editor = {Rebecca N. Wright},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag, LNCS 2742},
}
@inproceedings{minion-design,
title = {Mixminion: Design of a Type {III} Anonymous Remailer Protocol},
author = {George Danezis and Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson},
booktitle = {2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy},
year = {2003},
month = {May},
publisher = {IEEE CS},
pages = {2--15},
}
@InProceedings{web-mix,
author = {Oliver Berthold and Hannes Federrath and Stefan K\"opsell},
title = {Web {MIX}es: A system for anonymous and unobservable
{I}nternet access},
booktitle = {Designing Privacy Enhancing Technologies: Workshop
on Design Issue in Anonymity and Unobservability},
editor = {H. Federrath},
month = {Jul},
publisher = {Springer-Verlag, LNCS 2009},
year = {2000},
}
@inproceedings{tor-design,
author = "Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson and Paul Syverson",
title = {{Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium},
year = {2004},
month = {Aug},
}
@InProceedings{danezis-pet2004,
author = "George Danezis",
title = "The Traffic Analysis of Continuous-Time Mixes",
booktitle= {Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PET 2004)},
editor = {David Martin and Andrei Serjantov},
month = {May},
year = {2004},
}
Index: usability.tex
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RCS file: /home/freehaven/cvsroot/doc/wupss04/usability.tex,v
retrieving revision 1.9
retrieving revision 1.10
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--- usability.tex 1 Nov 2004 10:44:00 -0000 1.9
+++ usability.tex 1 Nov 2004 11:03:29 -0000 1.10
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
\begin{document}
-\title{Anonymity Loves Company --\\ Usability and the Network Effect}
+\title{Anonymity Loves Company:\\ Usability and the Network Effect}
\author{Roger Dingledine \\ The Free Haven Project \\ arma@freehaven.net \and
Nick Mathewson \\ The Free Haven Project \\ nickm@freehaven.net}
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
Usability is an important parameter in systems that aim to protect data
confidentiality. But when the goal is {\it privacy}, it can become even
-more important. A large category of {\it anonymity networks}, such as
+more important. A large category of {\it anonymizing networks}, such as
Tor, JAP, Mixminion, and Mixmaster, aim to hide not only what is being
said, but also who is
communicating with whom, which users are using which websites, and so on.
@@ -131,9 +131,7 @@
sets to more sophisticated measures based on the attacker's confidence.}
Therefore, when more users join the network, existing users become more
secure, even if the new users never talk to the existing
-ones!\footnote{``On the Economics of Anonymity''. Alessandro Acquisti,
- Roger Dingledine, Paul Syverson. {\em Proceedings of the Seventh
- International Financial Cryptography Conference}, January 2003.}
+ones! \cite{econymics}
There is a catch, however. For users to keep the same anonymity set, they
need to act like each other. If Alice's client acts completely unlike Bob's
@@ -287,10 +285,8 @@
privacy itself. What happens when these principles conflict?
We encountered a situation like this when designing how the Mixminion
-anonymous email network\footnote{``Mixminion: Design of a type {III}
- anonymous remailer protocol''. George Danezis, Roger Dingledine,
- and Nick Mathewson. {\em Proc. 2003 IEEE Symposium on Security and
- Privacy}, pages 2--15.} should handle MIME-encoded data. MIME
+anonymous email network \cite{minion-design} should handle MIME-encoded
+data. MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is the way a mail client tells
the receiving mail client about attachments, which character set was used,
and so on. As a standard, MIME is so permissive and flexible that
@@ -350,12 +346,8 @@
Usability and marketing have also proved important in the development
of Tor, a low-latency anonymizing network for TCP traffic. The technical
challenges Tor has solved, and the ones it still needs to address, are
-described in its design paper\footnote{``Tor: The
- Second-Generation Onion Router''. Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson,
- and Paul Syverson. {\em Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security
- Symposium}, August 2004.},
-but at this point many of the most crucial challenges are in adoption
-and usability.
+described in its design paper \cite{tor-design}, but at this point many
+of the most crucial challenges are in adoption and usability.
While Tor was in it earliest stages, its user base was a small number of
fairly sophisticated privacy enthusiasts with experience running Unix
@@ -406,9 +398,7 @@
The Java Anon Proxy (JAP) is a low-latency anonymizing network for web
browsing developed and deployed by the Technical University of Dresden
-in Germany.\footnote{``Web MIXes: A system for anonymous and unobservable
- Internet access''. Oliver Berthold, Hannes Federrath, and Stefan
- K\"opsell. {\em Proceedings of PET2000}, July 2000.} Unlike Tor, which
+in Germany \cite{web-mix}. Unlike Tor, which
uses a \emph{free-route} topology where each user can choose where to
enter the network and where to exit, JAP has fixed-route \emph{cascades}
that aggregate user traffic into a single entry point and a single
@@ -426,9 +416,7 @@
bytes from one end of the cascade to the other, it falls prey to the
same end-to-end timing correlation attacks as we described above. That
is, an attacker who can watch both ends of the cascade won't actually
-be distracted by the other users.\footnote{``The Traffic Analysis of
- Continuous-Time Mixes''. George Danezis. {\em Proceedings of PET2004},
- May 2004.} The JAP
+be distracted by the other users \cite{danezis-pet2004}. The JAP
team has plans to implement full-scale padding from every user (sending
packets all the time even when they have nothing to send), but ---
for usability reasons --- they haven't gone forward with these plans.
@@ -514,8 +502,7 @@
an attacker might sign up many users to artificially inflate the apparent
size of the network. Not only does this \emph{Sybil attack} increase the
odds that the attacker will be able to successfully compromise a given
-user transaction\footnote{``The Sybil Attack''. John Douceur. {\em
- Proceedings of IPTPS02}, March 2002.}, but it might also trick
+user transaction,\cite{sybil}, but it might also trick
users into thinking a given network is safer than it actually is.
And finally, as we saw in the above discussion about JAP, it's hard to
@@ -555,6 +542,9 @@
rights workers in oppressive countries are going to continue publishing
their stories; witty finishing clause here.
+\bibliographystyle{plain}
+\bibliography{usability}
+
\end{document}
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