Program

Tuesday, July 22
19:00PETS/WOTE Joint Reception
University Hall
Wednesday, July 23
9:00–
12:00
WOTE joint sessions
12:00–
13:45
Lunch
Introduction and Keynote
13:45Opening Remarks
14:00Keynote: Analyzing PETs for Enterprise Operations
Stuart Shapiro and Aaron Powell (The MITRE Corporation, USA)
15:15–
15:45
Break
Session #1 (Chair: George Danezis)
15:45Perfect Matching Disclosure Attacks
Carmela Troncoso, Benedikt Gierlichs, Bart Preneel, and Ingrid Verbauwhede (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
16:15An Indistinguishability-based Characterization of Anonymous Channels
Alejandro Hevia (University of Chile, Chile) and Daniele Micciancio (University of California, San Diego, USA)
16:45On the Impact of Social Network Profiling on Anonymity
Claudia Diaz, Carmela Troncoso (K.U. Leuven, Belgium), and Andrei Serjantov (The Free Haven Project, UK)
17:15Shining Light in Dark Places: Understanding the Tor Network
Damon McCoy, Kevin Bauer, Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado, USA), Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington, USA), and Douglas Sicker (University of Colorado, USA)
19:00PETS/WOTE Joint Banquet
Faculty Club
Thursday, July 24
Session #2: Analysis (Chair: Matthew Wright)
9:00Formalized Information-Theoretic Proofs of Privacy Using the HOL4 Theorem-Prover
Aaron R. Coble (University of Cambridge, UK)
9:30Breaking and Provably Fixing Minx
Erik Shimshock, Matthew Staats, and Nicholas Hopper (University of Minnesota, USA)
10:00Metrics for Security and Performance in Low-Latency Anonymity Systems
Steven J. Murdoch and Robert N. M. Watson (Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK)
10:30–
11:00
Break
11:00Panel
Data minimisation, proportionality, and necessity in privacy systems
Moderator: Caspar Bowden (Microsoft, UK)
Panelists: Paul de Hert (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium), Eleni Kosta (K.U. Leuven, Belgium), Benjamin Goold (University of Oxford, UK), and Gordon Nardell (39 Essex Street, UK)
12:30–
14:15
Lunch
Session #3: Attacks (Chair: Steven Murdoch)
14:15Studying Timing Analysis on the Internet with SubRosa
Hatim Daginawala and Matthew Wright (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
14:45Bridging and Fingerprinting: Epistemic Attacks on Route Selection
George Danezis (Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK) and Paul Syverson (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
15:15Chattering Laptops
Tuomas Aura (Microsoft Research, UK), Janne Lindqvist (Helsinki University of Technology, Finland), Michael Roe (Microsoft Research, UK), and Anish Mohammed (University of London, UK)
15:45–
16:15
Break
16:15–
18:00
Rump session
19:00Guided tour of Leuven
Friday, July 25
Session #4: Anonymity and Society (Chair: Andrei Serjantov)
9:00How to Bypass Two Anonymity Revocation Schemes
George Danezis (Microsoft Research, UK) and Len Sassaman (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)
9:30Reputation Systems for Anonymous Networks
Elli Androulaki, Seung Geol Choi, Steven M. Bellovin, and Tal Malkin (Columbia University, USA)
10:00PAR: Payment for Anonymous Routing
Elli Androulaki, Mariana Raykova, Shreyas Srivatsan (Columbia University, USA), Angelos Stavrou (George Mason University, USA), and Steven M. Bellovin (Columbia University, USA)
10:30–
11:00
Break
HotPETS Session 1: Privacy Infrastructure
11:00Welcome and Introduction
Roger Dingledine (The Tor Project)
11:10High-Speed Single-Database PIR Implementation
Carlos Aguilar Melchor (Universite de Limoges)
11:40Unlinkability without Infrastructure: Protecting Privacy with Protocol Stack Virtualization
Janne Lindqvist (Helsinki University of Technology)
12:10Using Wireless Physical Layer Information to Construct Implicit Identifiers
Damon McCoy (University of Colorado)
12:40–
14:15
Lunch
HotPETS Session 2: Privacy Policy and Technology
14:15Invited Talk: A Practical 18 U.S.C. Section 2257 Debriefing
Jacob Appelbaum
14:40Privacy Impact Assessment with PRAIS
Rae Harbird (University College London)
15:10–
15:30
Coffee Break
HotPETS Session 3: Onion Routing Innovations
15:30UDP-OR: A Fair Onion Transport Design
Camilo Viecco (Indiana University)
16:00Virtual Private Hidden Services
Karsten Loesing (University of Bamberg)
16:30HotPETS/PETS closing
Saturday, July 26
PET Hike (Wezemaal)