CIS 6930/4930 Anonymity

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Lecture Slides

• Lecture 1 - class intro (ppt)
• Lecture 2a - Getting a grip on anonymity (ppt)
• Lecture 2b - Getting a grip on anonymity (ppt)
• Lecture 2c - Getting a grip on anonymity (ppt)
• Lecture 3a - Cryptography for anonymity (ppt)
• Lecture 3b - Anonymity in networks (ppt)
  Networks Without User Observability - Design Options by Andreas Pfitzmann and Michael Waidner, in Proceedings of EUROCRYPT 1985.
• Lecture 3c- Chaum Mixes (ppt)
  Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms by David Chaum David Chaum, Communications of the ACM 24(2), February 1981
• Lecture 3d- Generalizing Mixes (ppt)
• Lecture 4a- Crowds (ppt)
• Lecture series 5 - Free-route Mixes vs. Cascades (ppt)
• Lecture series 6 - Anonymity Metrics(ppt)
• Lecture series 7 - Traffic Matrix Approach (ppt)
• Lecture series 8 - Active Attacks on Mixes (ppt)
• Lecture series 9 - Dining Cryptographers (ppt)
• Lecture series 10 - Onion Routing (ppt)
• Lecture series 11 - SmartGrid Privacy (ppt)
• Lecture series 12 - Electronic Cash (ppt)
• Lecture series 13 - Electronic Voting (ppt)
  See also Mercuri's electronic voting website
  and The Problem with Electronic Voting Machines by Bruce Schnieir
• Background - Crypto and Protocols
  • Basic cryptology (pdf)
  • Symmetric cryptography (pdf)
  • Hashes and message digests (pdf)
  • Asymmetric cryptography (pdf)
  • basic protocols
  • advanced protocols
  • Secret Sharing and Key Escrow (pdf)
  • Cryptographic authentication & PKI
  • Network Cryptographic Protocols(pdf)
  • DEC SRC TR-039: A Logic of Authentication (PDF)

Final Presentations

• Joseph Choi: NTM (Tues)
• Conor Doherty: Tor (Wed)

Initial Presentations

• Artin Overview
• Burgunder Overview
• Cabrera Overview
• Cavitt Overview
• Chettiar Overview
• Choi Overview
• Cronin Overview
• Doherty Overview
• Hazarika Overview
• Jain Overview
• Maheswaran Overview
• Mccoy Overview
• Mehta Overview
• Mirani Overview
• Odegbile Overview
• Pittaluga_Overview.pdf
• Pradhan Overview
• Rajguru Overview
• Sachdeva Overview
• Silcott Overview
• SmithJ_Overview.pdf
• Tang Overview
• Winninger Overview
• Le Overview