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 Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Toronto, Canada      26 - 28 May  2004



Wednesday Sessions

I -- Intersection Attacks.  Session Chair: Andreas Pfitzmann

"Anonymity and Covert Channels in Simple Timed Mix-firewalls" [PPT]
Richard E. Newman, Vipan R. Nalla, Ira S. Moskowitz

"Practical Traffic Analysis: Extending and Resisting Statistical Disclosure" [PDF slides]
Nick Mathewson, Roger Dingledine

"The Traffic Analysis of Continuous-Time Mixes" [PDF slides]
George Danezis

II -- PET Building Blocks.  Session Chair: Ian Goldberg

"Reputable Mix Networks"
Philippe Golle

"Secure Outsourcing of Sequence Comparisons"
Mikhail J. Atallah, Jiangtao Li

"An Improved Construction for Universal Re-encryption" [GIF slides]
Peter Fairbrother

III -- Privacy in the Real World.  Session Chair: David Martin

"Electromagnetic Eavesdropping Risks of Flat-Panel Displays" [PDF slides]
Markus G. Kuhn

"On the Anonymity of Banknotes" [PDF slides]
Dennis Kügler


Thursday Sessions

IV -- Mobile/Ubiquitous Privacy.  Session Chair: Philippe Golle

"FLASCHE: a Mechanism Providing Anonymity for Mobile Users"
Alf Zugenmaier

"Cryptographically Protected Prefixes for Location Privacy in IPv6"
Jonathan Trostle, Bretmoor Way, Hosei Matsuoka, Mukarram Muhammed Bin Tariq, James Kempf, Toshiro Kawahara, Ravi Jain

"Protecting User Data in Ubiquitous Computing: Towards Trustworthy Environments" [PPT]
Yitao Duan, John Canny

V -- Mix Systems.  Session Chair: George Danezis

"Synchronous Batching: From Cascades to Free Routes" [PDF slides]
Roger Dingledine, Vitaly Shmatikov, Paul Syverson

"On Flow Correlation Attacks and Countermeasures in Mix Networks"
Ye Zhu, Xinwen Fu, Bryan Graham, Riccardo Bettati, Wei Zhao

"Measuring Anonymity in a Non-adaptive, Real-time System"
Gergely Toth, Zoltan Hornak

Panel Discussion

"Mix Cascades vs. Peer-to-Peer: Is One Concept Superior?" [PDF introductory slides]
Moderator: Claudia Díaz (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Panelists: George Danezis (University of Cambridge), Christian Grothoff (Purdue University), Andreas Pfitzmann (Dresden University of Technology), Paul Syverson (Naval Research Lab, USA)


Friday Sessions

VI -- Technical Support for Privacy Policies.  Session Chair: Paul Syverson

"A Formal Privacy System and its Application to Location Based Services"
Carl A. Gunter, Michael May, Stuart Stubblebine

"Privacy-Preserving Trust Negotiation"
Elisa Bertino, Elena Ferrari, Anna C. Squicciarini

"Language-Based Enforcement of Privacy Policies" [PDF slides]
Katia Hayati, Martin Abadi

VII -- Privacy in the Real World Part II.  Session Chair: Caspar Bowden

"Searching for Privacy: Design and Implementation of a P3P-Enabled Search Engine"
Lorrie Cranor, Patrick McDaniel, Simon Byers, David Kormann

"Contextualized Communication of Privacy Practices and Personalization Benefits: Impacts on Users. Data Sharing Behavior" [PPT]
Alfred Kobsa, Maximilian Teltzrow

Panel Discussion

"Conforming Technology to Policy: The Problems of Electronic Health Records"
Moderator: Richard Owens (University of Toronto)
Panelists: Ross Fraser (Sextant Software, Canada), William O'Brien (Bell Canada), Mike Gurski (Information and Privacy Commission Ontario)


Timetable

Tuesday, May 25
16:00 - 19:00 Registration in the hotel lobby
17:00 - 19:00 Welcome reception on the poolside patio

Day I - Wednesday, May 26
08:00 - 09:00 Continental breakfast
08:00 - 16:00 Registration outside the plenary room

09:00 Welcome
09:15 Invited Talk I: Ross Anderson, "Economics of Security and Privacy" [PPT]
10:15 Coffee
10:45 Session I: Intersection Attacks
12:15 Lunch
14:00 Session II: PET Building Blocks
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Session III: Privacy in the Real World Part I
17:00 End of session

18:30 Dinner on your own
21:00 Birds-Of-a-Feather Sessions, as announced

Day II - Thursday, May 27
08:00 - 09:00 Continental breakfast
08:00 - 16:00 Registration outside the plenary room

09:00 Session IV: Mobile/Ubiquitous Privacy
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Session V: Mix Systems
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Panel "Mix Cascades vs. Peer-to-Peer: Is One Concept Superior?"
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technology
16:30 Rump Session I (5 minute Works-In-Progress talks -- click for sign-up instructions)
18:15 End of session

18:45 Workshop Dinner at the CN Tower

Day III - Friday, May 28
08:00 - 09:00 Continental breakfast
08:00 - 14:00 Registration outside the plenary room

09:00 Invited Talk II: Andreas Pfitzmann, "Research on anonymous communication in German(y) 1983 - 1990" [PPT, PDF]
10:00 Coffee
10:30 Session VI: Technical Support for Privacy Policies
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Session VII: Privacy in the Real World Part II
14:30 Coffee
15:00 Rump Session II (5 minute Works-In-Progress talks -- click for sign-up instructions)
16:00 Panel: "Conforming Technology to Policy: The Problems of Electronic Health Records"
17:00 Closing Remarks
17:15 Business Meeting
18:15 End of meeting

Saturday, May 29
Hike to Niagara Escarpment, a UNESCO biosphere reserve (separate registration required by first day of Workshop -- Wednesday, May 26).  Details to be announced at the workshop.