Instructor: S. Nagaraja
Email: nagaraja
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Office: 3rd Floor, IIIT Delhi
Hours: Tuesdays 4-5 pm
Lectures: 26
Location: Classroom2
Credits: 4
Mailing list: cse549@iiitd.ac.in

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Privacy Enhancing Technologies CSE 549

Winter 2010

Course Essentials

A basic network programming course is a prerequisite. An equivalent course in Operating Systems or Networking is also acceptable with the approval of the instructor. Knowledge of prior security courses is desirable but not essential.

A student scoring an 'A' grade in this course will be able to engineer practical privacy enhancing technologies, critically review existing designs, read and understand technical papers in the area of anonymous communications, privacy preserving technologies, private social networks and learn to apply the privacy-by-design methodology.

Schedule

	Topic	Reading/Slides
L1	Course introduction
L2	Introduction to PETS	Privacy-enhancing Technologies for the Internet I. Goldberg, D. Wagner, E. Brewer, IEEE Spring COMPCON, 1997.
L3	Introduction to PETS	Privacy-enhancing technologies for the Internet II: Five years later I. Goldberg, PET 2002.
L4	Anonymous communications	Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms D. Chaum, Communications of the ACM, 1981.
L5	Anonymous communications	Mixminion: Design of a Type III Anonymous Remailer Protocol G.Danezis, R.Dingledine, N.Mathewson, IEEE SSP (Oakland) 2003.
L6	Anonymous communications	Towards an Analysis of Onion Routing Security P.Syverson, G.Tsudik, M.Reed, C.Landwehr, PET 2000.
L7	Anonymous communications	Tor: The Second-Generation Onion Router R.Dingledine, N.Mathewson, P.Syverson, USENIX Security, 2004.
L8	Censorship resistance and anonymous publishing	The Eternity Service R.Anderson, Pragocrypt 1996.
L9	Censorship resistance and anonymous publishing	Freenet: A Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Retrieval System I.Clarke, O.Sandberg, B.Wiley, T.W. Hong, PET 2000.
L10	Censorship resistance and anonymous publishing	Tangler: a censorship-resistant publishing system based on document entanglements M.Waldman, D.Mazíeres, ACM CCS 2001.
L11	Traffic analysis	Traffic Analysis Attacks and Trade-Offs in Anonymity Providing Systems A.Back, U.Möller, A.Stiglic, IH 2001.
L12	Traffic analysis	The Traffic Analysis of Continuous-Time Mixes G.Danezis, PET 2004.
L13	Traffic analysis	Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor S.J. Murdoch, G.Danezis, IEEE SSP (Oakland) 2005.
L14	Traffic analysis	Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor S.J. Murdoch, P. Zielinski, PETS 2007.
L15	Privacy and social networks	Persona: An Online Social Network with User-Defined Privacy R. Baden, A. Bender, N. Spring, B. Bhattacharjee, D. Starin, ACM SIGCOMM 2009
L16	Privacy and social networks
L17	Privacy and social networks
L18	Privacy preserving computation
L19	Privacy preserving computation
L20	Privacy preserving computation
L21	Policy and Economics
L22	Policy and Economics
L23	Privacy-by-design
L24	Privacy-by-design
L25	Revision
L26	Revision

Plagiarism notice: please note that homework efforts are individual efforts i.e. not group efforts and not copied off the Internet. Consult the institute's plagiarism policy for more information. Please note that a first offence is punishable with a 10% reduction in grade and a second offense will result in an 'F' grade. Any plagirism offenses during examinations will swiftly result in an 'F' grade and a plagiarism record.