Past Winners
The 2010 Winner is:
Craig Gentry. Fully Homomorphic Encryption using Ideal Lattices. ACM Symposium Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) 2009.
The 2010 runners-up were:
- N. Homer, S. Szelinger, M. Redman, D. Duggan, W. Tembe, J. Muehling, J.V. Pearson, DA Stephan, S.F. Nelson, and D.W. Craig. Resolving individuals contributing trace amounts of DNA to highly complex mixtures using high-density SNP genotyping microarrays. PlOS Genet, 2008.
- R. Chow, P. Golle, and J. Staddon. Detecting Privacy Leaks Using Corpus-based Association Rules. ACM SIGKDD international conference on Knowledge discovery and data mining (KDD) 2008.
- S. Spiekermann and L. Cranor. Engineering Privacy. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 35(1), 2009, pp. 67-82.
The 2009 Winners are:
- Cynthia Dwork. An Ad Omnia Approach to Defining and Achieving Private Data Analysis. ACM SIGKDD International Workshop on Privacy, Security, and Trust in KDD (PinKDD 2007). [PDF]
- Frank McSherry and Kunal Talwar. Mechanism Design via Differential Privacy. IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2007). [PDF]
The 2009 runners-up were:
- Patrick Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, and Sean Smith. Blacklistable anonymous credentials: blocking misbehaving users without TTPs. ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2007). [PDF]
- Patrick Tsang, Man Ho Au, Apu Kapadia, and Sean Smith. PEREA: Towards Practical TTP-Free Revocation in Anonymous Authentication. ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2008). [PDF]
The 2008 Winner is:
Arvind Narayanan and Vitaly Shmatikov. Robust De-anonymization of
Large Sparse Datasets. Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy (S&P 2008).
[PDF]
The 2008 runners-up were:
- Steven J. Murdoch and Piotr Zielinski. Sampled Traffic Analysis by Internet-Exchange-Level Adversaries. Proceedings of the 2007 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET 2007).
- Mira Belenkiy, Melissa Chase, C. Chris Erway, John Jannotti, Alptekin Küpçü, Anna Lysyanskaya, and Eric Rachlin. Making P2P Accountable without Losing Privacy. Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (WPES 2007).
The 2007 Winner is:
Stephen C. Bono, Matthew Green, Adam Stubblefield, Ari Juels, Aviel
D. Rubin and Michael Szydlo.
Security Analysis of a Cryptographically-Enabled RFID Device.
Proceedings of the 14th USENIX Security Symposium.
[PDF]
The 2007 runners-up were:
- Jiangtao Li, Ninghui Li and William H. Winsborough. Automated Trust Negotiation Using Cryptographic Credentials. Proceedings of the 12th ACM conference on Computer and communications security.
- Keith B. Frikken and Philippe Golle. Private Social Network Analysis: How to Assemble Pieces of a Graph. Proceedings of the 5th ACM workshop on Privacy in electronic society.
The 2006 Winner is:
Daniel J. Solove.
A taxonomy of privacy.
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 154, No. 3, p. 477, January
2006. [PDF]
The other 2006 nominees were:
- Carolyn Brodie, Clare-Marie Karat, John Karat . The SPARCLE Policy Management Workbench Project.
- Steven J. Murdoch, George Danezis: Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2005: 183-195
- Cynthia Dwork, Frank McSherry, Kobbi Nissim, Adam Smith: Calibrating Noise to Sensitivity in Private Data Analysis. TCC 2006: 265-284
The 2005 Winner is:
Alessandro Acquisti for "Privacy in Electronic Commerce and the Economics of
Immediate Gratification," in Proceedings of the ACM Electronic Commerce
Conference (EC 04). New York, NY: ACM Press, 21-29, 2004. [PDF]
The other 2005 nominees were:
- Nick Feamster and Roger Dingledine for "Location Diversity in Anonymity Networks" in WPES'04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society. [PS]
- Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson, and Paul Syverson for "Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router", in Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2004. [PDF]
The 2004 Winners are:
Michael Backes, Birgit Pfitzmann, and Matthias Schunter for "A Toolkit for
Managing Enterprise Privacy Policies", in ESORICS 2003. [PDF]
Matthias Bauer for "New Covert Channels in HTTP: Adding Unwitting Web
Browsers to Anonymity Sets", in Proceedings of the Workshop on Privacy in the
Electronic Society 2003. [PS]
The other 2004 nominees were:
- Jan Camenisch and Anna Lysyanskaya, "A Signature scheme with efficient protocols", in Security in Communication Networks, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 2576, 2002. [PDF]
- Jan Camenisch and Els Van Herreweghen, "Design and Implementation of the Idemix Anonymous Credential System", in 9th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. [URL]
- Marcin Gomukiewicz, Marek Klonowski and Mirosaw Kutyowski, "Rapid Mixing and Security of Chaums Visual Electronic Voting", in ESORICS 2003. [URL]
- Latanya Sweeney, "k-Anonymity: a model for protecting privacy", in International Journal on Uncertainty, Fuzziness and Knowledge-based Systems 10 (5), 2002, pp. 557-570. [URL]
- by Matthew Wright, Brian Levine, Michael Reiter and Chenxi Wang, "Stopping timing attacks in low-latency mix-based systems". In Financial Crypto '04. [PDF]
The 2003 Winners are Andrei Serjantov and George Danezis for "Towards an Information Theoretic Metric for Anonymity", from the 2002 Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
The other 2003 nominees were:
- John Douceur for "The Sybil Attack", presented at International Peer To Peer Systems Workshop 2002, March 2002. [PDF]
- Alessandro Acquisti, Roger Dingledine, and Paul Syverson for "On the Economics of Anonymity", presented at Financial Cryptography 2003. [PDF]
- Adil Alsaid and David Martin for "Detecting Web Bugs With Bugnosis: Privacy Advocacy Through Education", presented at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop 2002. [PDF]