PETS 2016

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Monday July 18

17:40 Meeting in front of the conference venue darmstadtium (main entrance)

17:45 Departure for a joint walk through Darmstadt to the beer garden

Tuesday July 19: Darmstadtium Conference Venue

08:00 Registration and Coffee with light Breakfast

08:45 - 09:00 Opening Remarks

09:00 - 10:30 Fingerprinting and Leakage I

Session Chair: Aylin Caliskan-Islam

• Towards Mining Latent Client Identifiers from Network Traffic (video)

  Sakshi Jain (LinkedIn) and Mobin Javed and Vern Paxon (International Computer Science Institute & University of California, Berkeley)

• Are You Sure You Want to Contact Us? Quantifying the Leakage of PII via Website Contact Forms (video)

  Oleksii Starov, Phillipa Gill, and Nick Nikiforakis (Stony Brook University)

• Automobile Driver Fingerprinting (video)

  Miro Enev and Alex Takakuwa (University of Washington), Karl Koscher (University of California, San Diego), and Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington)

• Blogs, Twitter Feeds, and Reddit Comments: Cross-domain Authorship Attribution (video)

  Rebekah Overdorf and Rachel Greenstadt (Drexel University)

• Isolating Graphical Failure-Inducing Input for Privacy Protection in Error Reporting Systems (video)

  João Matos and João Garcia (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico da Universidade de Lisboa) and Nuno Coração (NOS)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Censorship

Session Chair: Damon McCoy

• SoK: Making Sense of Censorship Resistance Systems (video)

  Sheharbano Khattak (University of Cambridge), Tariq Elahi (KU Leuven), Laurent Simon (University of Cambridge), Colleen M. Swanson (University of California, Davis), Steven J. Murdoch (University College London), and Ian Goldberg (University of Waterloo)

• CovertCast: Using Live Streaming to Evade Internet Censorship (video)

  Richard McPherson (University of Texas, Austin), Amir Houmansadr (University of Massachusetts Amherst), and Vitaly Shmatikov (Cornell University)

• Salmon: Robust Proxy Distribution for Censorship Circumvention (video)

  Frederick Douglas (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Rorshach (unaffiliated), and Weiyang Pan and Matthew Caesar (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

• Mailet: Instant Social Networking under Censorship (video)

  Shuai Li and Nicholas Hopper (University of Minnesota)

• A Framework for the Game-theoretic Analysis of Censorship Resistance (video)

  Tariq Elahi (KU Leuven), John A. Doucette and Hadi Hosseini (University of Waterloo), Steven J. Murdoch (University College London), and Ian Goldberg (University of Waterloo)

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:30 Anonymous Communication

Session Chair: Nick Hopper

• Riffle: Efficient Communication System With Strong Anonymity (video)

  Albert Kwon, David Lazar, and Srinivas Devadas (MIT) and Bryan Ford (EPFL)

• Data-plane Defenses against Routing Attacks on Tor (video)

  Henry Tan, Micah Sherr, and Wenchao Zhou (Georgetown University)

• Selfrando: Securing the Tor Browser against De-anonymization Exploits (video)

  Mauro Conti (University of Padua), Stephen Crane (Immunant, Inc.), Tommaso Frassetto (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Andrei Homescu (Immunant, Inc.), Georg Koppen (The Tor Project), Per Larsen (University of California, Irvine), Christopher Liebchen (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Mike Perry (The Tor Project), and Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

• Scalable and Anonymous Group Communication with MTor (video)

  Dong Lin (University of Pennsylvania), Micah Sherr (Georgetown University), and Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania)

• Your Choice MATor(s): Large-scale Quantitative Anonymity Assessment of Tor Path Selection Algorithms against Structural Attacks (video)

  Michael Backes (CISPA, Saarland University, MPI-SWS) and Sebastian Meiser and Marcin Slowik (CISPA, Saarland University)

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 PIR, Anonymous Communication

Session Chair: Stefan Katzenbeisser

• Anonymity in Peer-assisted CDNs: Inference Attacks and Mitigation (video)

  Yaoqi Jia, Guangdong Bai, Prateek Saxena, and Zhenkai Liang (National University of Singapore)

• DeNASA: Destination-Naive AS-Awareness in Anonymous Communications

  Armon Barton and Matthew Wright (UT Arlington)

• Lower-Cost epsilon-Private Information Retrieval (video)

  Raphael R. Toledo and George Danezis (University College London) and Ian Goldberg (University of Waterloo)

• XPIR : Private Information Retrieval for Everyone (video)

  Carlos Aguilar-Melchor (INP ENSEEIHT, IRIT-CNRS), Joris Barrier (LAAS-CNRS), Laurent Fousse (Université de Grenoble, Laboratoire Jean-Kuntzmann), and Marc-Olivier Killijian (LAAS-CNRS)

• Polynomial Batch Codes for Efficient IT-PIR (video)

  Ryan Henry (Indiana University)

18:10  Meeting in front of the conference venue darmstadtium (main entrance)

18:20  Departure in front of the conference venue darmstadtium (main entrance)  for the banquet dinner at Castle Frankenstein

Wednesday July 20: Maschinenhaus Conference Venue

08:30 Registration and Coffee with light Breakfast

09:00 - 12:40 Keynotes of all three conferences

• 09:00 - 10:00 Keynote IFIP TM

  Prof. Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University: Trust Enhanced Secure Role-based Access Control on Encrypted Data in Cloud

• 10:10 - 11:10 Keynote PETS

  (video)

  Prof. Angela Sasse (University College London): Goodbye Passwords, Hello Biometrics - Do We Understand the Privacy Implications?

  Session Chair: George Danezis

                                                                                                                        

11:10 - 11:40 Coffee break

• 11:40 - 12:40 Keynote WiSec

  Jean-Pierre Hubaux, EPFL: The Ultimate Frontier for Privacy and Security: Medicine

12:40 - 14:00 Lunch Break

Please note: We'll have parallel sessions in the afternoon.

18:00 Beginning of the All Joint Award Ceremony with finger food & drinks at Maschinenhaus for the PETS Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies and the IFIP TM Best Paper award.

• 18:00 Reception
• 18:20 PET Award
• 19:00 IFIP TM Best Paper Award
• 19:15 Get-together for all participants with (finger) food & drinks

Thursday July 21: Darmstadtium Conference Venue

08:00 Registration and Coffee with light light Breakfast

09:00 - 10:30 Fingerprinting and Leakage II

Session Chair: Jean-Pierre Hubaux

• Fingerprinting Mobile Devices Using Personalized Configurations

  Andreas Kurtz, Tobias Becker, and Felix Freiling (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuernberg) and Hugo Gascon and Konrad Rieck (Georg-August-University Goettingen)

• On Realistically Attacking Tor with Website Fingerprinting (video)

  Tao Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Ian Goldberg (University of Waterloo)

• Near-Optimal Fingerprinting with Constraints (video)

  Gabor Gyorgy Gulyas, Gergely Acs, and Claude Castelluccia (INRIA)

• Building a RAPPOR with the Unknown: Privacy-Preserving Learning of Associations and Data Dictionaries (video)

  Giulia Fanti (U.C. Berkeley) and Vasyl Pihur and Úlfar Erlingsson (Google, Inc.)

• Listening to Whispers of Ripple: Linking Wallets and DeanonymizingTransactions in the Ripple Network (video)

  Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (Purdue University), Muhammad Bilal Zafar (MPI-SWS), and Aniket Kate (Purdue University)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 Townhall Meeting

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 - 15:50 Mobility, Location Privacy

Session Chair: Mohamed Ali (Dali) Kaafar

• SoK: Privacy on Mobile Devices – It’s Complicated (video)

  Chad Spensky (University of California, Santa Barbara), Jeffrey Stewart, Arkady Yerukhimovich, and Richard Shay (MIT Lincoln Laboratory), Ari Trachtenberg (Boston University), Rick Housley (Stevens Institute of Technology), and Robert K. Cunningham (MIT Lincoln Laboratory)

• Don't Interrupt Me While I Type: Inferring Text Entered Through Gesture Typing on Android Keyboards (video)

  Laurent Simon, Wenduan Xu, and Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge)

• Privacy Challenges in the Quantified Self Movement - An EU Perspective (video)

  Dominik Leibenger and Frederik Möllers (CISPA, Saarland University), Anna Petrlic (Independent Researcher), Ronald Petrlic (Commissioner for Data Protection Baden-Württemberg), and Christoph Sorge (CISPA, Saarland University)

• On the Privacy Implications of Location Semantics

  Berker Ağır (EPFL, Switzerland), Kévin Huguenin (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France), Urs Hengartner (UWaterloo, Canada), and Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL, Switzerland)

• Location Privacy with Randomness Consistency (video)

  Hao Wu and Yih-Chun Hu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

• Privacy vs. Reward in Indoor Location-Based Services (video)

  Kassem Fawaz (University of Michigan), Kyu-Han Kim (Hewlett Packard Enterprise Labs), and Kang G. Shin (University of Michigan)

15:50 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:30  Rump Session and Closing Remarks

Session Chair: Roger Dingledine

Friday July 22: HotPETS at the Darmstadtium Conference Venue

Saturday July 22: Hike in the Odenwald Forest.

• Meeting: 9:45 am in front of the main entrance of the darmstadtium venue.
• Departure: 10:00 am in front of the main entrance of the darmstadtium venue.
• After the hike, participants will enjoy a BBQ at the Kur Alpe restaurant. For 15€, hikers can enjoy the 'all you can eat' grilloption (turkey, pork, a varitey of different sausages, cheese, vegetables) and a salad buffet. Drinks are not included.
• Return: 18:00 departure at the Kur Alpe restaurant parking lot