Selected Papers in Censorship

Here you can find an archive of selected research papers in the domain of censorship.
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Last updated: 2013-06-11

2013

Identity-Based Steganography and Its Applications to Censorship Resistance [pdf (cached), bib]
Tim Ruffing, Jonas Schneider, and Aniket Kate
In: Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Bloomington, IN, USA, 2013), Springer
SWEET: Serving the Web by Exploiting Email Tunnels [pdf (cached), bib]
Wenxuan Zhou, Amir Houmansadr, Matthew Caesar, and Nikita Borisov
In: Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Bloomington, IN, USA, 2013), Springer
OSS: Using Online Scanning Services for Censorship Circumvention [pdf (cached), bib]
David Fifield, Gabi Nakibly and Dan Boneh
In: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (Bloomington, IN, USA, 2013), Springer
The Parrot is Dead: Observing Unobservable Network Communications [pdf (cached), bib]
Amir Houmansadr, Chad Brubaker and Vitaly Shmatikov
In: Symposium on Security & Privacy (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2013), IEEE
I want my voice to be heard: IP over Voice-over-IP for unobservable censorship circumvention [pdf (cached), bib]
Amir Houmansadr, Thomas Riedl, Nikita Borisov and Andrew Singer
In: Network & Distributed System Security (San Diego, CA, USA, 2013), The Internet Society
rBridge: User Reputation based Tor Bridge Distribution with Privacy Preservation [pdf (cached), bib]
Qiyan Wang, Zi Lin, Nikita Borisov and Nicholas J. Hopper
In: Network & Distributed System Security (San Diego, CA, USA, 2013), The Internet Society

2012

Regional Variation in Chinese Internet Filtering [pdf (cached), bib]
Joss Wright
Technical Report (University of Oxford, 2012)
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression [pdf (cached), bib]
Gary King, Jennifer Pan and Margaret E. Roberts
In: American Political Science Review, 2012
Extensive Analysis and Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of Tor Bridge Discovery [pdf (cached), bib]
Zhen Ling, Xinwen Fu, Wei Yu, Junzhou Luo and Ming Yang
In: INFOCOM (Orlando, FL, USA, 2012), IEEE, pp. 2381-2389
Secure Communication over Diverse Transports [pdf (cached), bib]
Michael Rogers and Eleanor Saitta
In: Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (Raleigh, NC, USA, 2012), ACM, pp. 75-80
The Hidden Internet of Iran: Private Address Allocations on a National Network [pdf (cached), bib]
Collin Anderson
Technical Report (2012)
Routing Around Decoys [pdf (cached), bib]
Max Schuchard, John Geddes, Christopher Thompson and Nicholas Hopper
In: Computer and Communications Security (Raleigh, NC, USA, 2012), ACM
StegoTorus: A Camouflage Proxy for the Tor Anonymity System [pdf, (cached), bib]
Zachary Weinberg, Jeffrey Wang, Vinod Yegneswaran, Linda Briesemeister, Steven Cheung, Frank Wang and Dan Boneh
In: Computer and Communications Security (Raleigh, NC, USA, 2012), ACM
CensorSpoofer: Asymmetric Communication using IP Spoofing for Censorship-Resistant Web Browsing [pdf (cached), bib]
Qiyan Wang, Xun Gong, Giang T. K. Nguyen, Amir Houmansadr and Nikita Borisov
In: Computer and Communications Security (Raleigh, NC, USA, 2012), ACM
SkypeMorph: Protocol Obfuscation for Tor Bridges [pdf (cached), bib]
Hooman Mohajeri Moghaddam, Baiyu Li, Mohammad Derakhshani and Ian Goldberg
In: Computer and Communications Security (Raleigh, NC, USA, 2012), ACM
Whiskey, Weed, and Wukan on the World Wide Web: On Measuring Censors' Resources and Motivations [pdf (cached), bib]
Nicholas Aase, Jedidiah R. Crandall, Álvaro Díaz, Jeffrey Knockel, Jorge Ocaña Molinero, Jared Saia, Dan Wallach and Tao Zhu
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (Bellevue, WA, USA, 2012), USENIX
OONI: Open Observatory of Network Interference [pdf (cached), bib]
Arturo Filastò and Jacob Appelbaum
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (Bellevue, WA, USA, 2012), USENIX
Inferring Mechanics of Web Censorship Around the World [pdf (cached), bib]
John-Paul Verkamp and Minaxi Gupta
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (Bellevue, WA, USA, 2012), USENIX
Bootstrapping Communications into an Anti-Censorship System [pdf (cached), bib]
Patrick Lincoln, Ian Mason, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, Zachary Weinberg, Jeroen Massar, William Simpson, Paul Vixie and Dan Boneh
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (Bellevue, WA, USA, 2012), USENIX
One-way indexing for plausible deniability in censorship resistant storage [pdf (cached), bib]
Eugene Y. Vasserman, Victor Heorhiadi, Nicholas Hopper and Yongdae Kim
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (Bellevue, WA, USA, 2012), USENIX
How the Great Firewall of China is Blocking Tor [pdf (cached), bib]
Philipp Winter and Stefan Lindskog
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (Bellevue, WA, USA, 2012), USENIX
The Collateral Damage of Internet Censorship by DNS Injection [pdf (cached), bib]
Anonymous
In: SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 42 (3), 2012, pp. 21–27
Message In A Bottle: Sailing Past Censorship [pdf (cached), bib]
Luca Invernizzi, Christopher Kruegel and Giovanni Vigna
In: Hot Topics in Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Vigo, Spain, 2012)
Evading Censorship with Browser-Based Proxies [pdf (cached), bib]
David Fifield, Nate Hardison, Jonathan Ellithorpe, Emily Stark, Roger Dingledine, Phil Porras and Dan Boneh
In: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (Vigo, Spain, 2012), Springer, pp. 239-258

2011

Mapping Local Internet Control [pdf (cached), bib]
Hal Roberts, David Larochelle, Rob Faris and John Palfrey
In: Computer Communications Workshop (Hyannis, MA, USA, 2011), IEEE
Tor Instead of IP [pdf (cached), bib]
Vincent Liu, Seungyeop Han, Arvind Krishnamurthy and Thomas Anderson
In: Hot Topics in Networks (Cambridge, MA, USA, 2011), ACM
Proximax: A Measurement Based System for Proxies Dissemination [pdf (cached), bib]
Damon McCoy, Jose Andre Morales and Kirill Levchenko
In: Financial Cryptography and Data Security (St. Lucia, 2011), Springer
Analysis of Country-wide Internet Outages Caused by Censorship [pdf (cached), bib]
Alberto Dainotti, Claudio Squarcella, Emile Aben, Kimberly C. Claffy, Marco Chiesa, Michele Russo and Antonio Pescapé
In: Internet Measurement Conference (Berlin, Germany, 2011), ACM, pp. 1-18
Internet Censorship in China: Where Does the Filtering Occur? [pdf (cached), bib]
Xueyang Xu, Z. Morley Mao and J. Alex Halderman
In: Passive and Active Measurement Conference (Atlanta, GA, USA, 2011), Springer, pp. 133-142
Telex: Anticensorship in the Network Infrastructure [pdf (cached), bib]
Eric Wustrow, Scott Wolchok, Ian Goldberg and J. Alex Halderman
In: USENIX Security Symposium (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011), USENIX
Cirripede: Circumvention Infrastructure using Router Redirection with Plausible Deniability [pdf (cached), bib]
Amir Houmansadr, Giang T. K. Nguyen, Matthew Caesar and Nikita Borisov
In: Computer and Communications Security (Chicago, IL, USA, 2011), ACM, pp. 187-200
Fine-Grained Censorship Mapping: Information Sources, Legality and Ethics [pdf (cached), bib]
Joss Wright, Tulio de Souza and Ian Brown
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011), USENIX
Infrastructures of Censorship and Lessons from Copyright Resistance [pdf (cached), bib]
Wendy Seltzer
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011), USENIX
CensMon: A Web Censorship Monitor [pdf (cached), bib]
Andreas Sfakianakis, Elias Athanasopoulos and Sotiris Ioannidis
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011), USENIX
Automated Named Entity Extraction for Tracking Censorship of Current Events [pdf (cached), bib]
Antonio M. Espinoza and Jedidiah R. Crandall
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011), USENIX
Three Researchers, Five Conjectures: An Empirical Analysis of TOM-Skype Censorship and Surveillance [pdf (cached), bib]
Jeffrey Knockel, Jedidiah R. Crandall and Jared Saia
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011), USENIX
Bypassing Internet Censorship for News Broadcasters [pdf (cached), bib]
Karl Kathuria
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011), USENIX
Decoy Routing: Toward Unblockable Internet Communication [pdf (cached), bib]
Josh Karlin, Daniel Ellard, Alden W. Jackson, Christine E. Jones, Greg Lauer, David P. Mankins and W. Timothy Strayer
In: Free and Open Communications on the Internet (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2011), USENIX
An anomaly-based censorship-detection system for Tor [pdf (cached), bib]
George Danezis
Technical Report (2011)

2010

Chipping Away at Censorship Firewalls with User-Generated Content [pdf (cached), bib]
Sam Burnett, Nick Feamster and Santosh Vempala
In: USENIX Security Symposium (Washington, DC, USA, 2010), USENIX
Fighting Censorship with Algorithms [pdf (cached), bib]
Mohammad Mahdian
In: International Conference on Fun with Algorithms (Iscia, Italy, 2010), Springer, pp. 296-306
Empirical Study of a National-Scale Distributed Intrusion Detection System: Backbone-Level Filtering of HTML Responses in China [pdf (cached), bib]
Jong Chun Park and Jedidiah R. Crandall
In: Distributed Computing Systems (Genova, Italy, 2010), IEEE, pp. 315-326

2009

Detecting Forged TCP Reset Packets [pdf (cached), bib]
Nicholas Weaver, Robin Sommer and Vern Paxson
In: Network & Distributed System Security (San Diego, CA, USA, 2009), The Internet Society
SkyF2F: Censorship Resistant via Skype Overlay Network [pdf (cached), bib]
Shoufeng Cao, Longtao He, Zhongxian Li and Yixian Yang
In: International Conference on Information Engineering (Taiyuan, China, 2009), IEEE, pp. 350-354

2008

Pass it on: Social Networks Stymie Censors [pdf (cached), bib]
Yair Sovran, Alana Libonati and Jinyang Li
In: International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (Tampa Bay, FL, USA, 2008), USENIX

2007

The Great DNS Wall of China [pdf (cached), bib]
Graham Lowe, Patrick Winters and Michael L. Marcus
Technical Report (New York University, 2007)
ConceptDoppler: A Weather Tracker for Internet Censorship [pdf (cached), bib]
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Daniel Zinn, Michael Byrd, Earl Barr and Rich East
In: Computer and Communications Security (Alexandria, VA, USA, 2007), ACM, pp. 352-365

2006

"Good" Worms and Human Rights [pdf (cached), bib]
John Aycock and Alana Maurushat
In: ACM SIGCAS Computers & Society 38 (1), 2008, pp. 28-39
Design of a blocking-resistant anonymity system [pdf (cached), bib]
Roger Dingledine and Nick Mathewson
Technical Report (The Tor Project, 2006)
Ignoring the Great Firewall of China [pdf (cached), bib]
Richard Clayton, Steven J. Murdoch and Robert N. M. Watson
In: Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Cambridge, England, 2006), Springer, pp. 20-35
Failures in a Hybrid Content Blocking System [pdf (cached), bib]
Richard Clayton
In: Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Cambridge, England, 2006), Springer, pp. 78-92

2005

Censorship Resistance Revisited [pdf (cached), bib]
Ginger Perng, Michael K. Reiter and Chenxi Wang
In: International Conference on Information Hiding (Barcelona, Spain, 2005), Springer, pp. 62-76

2004

How to Achieve Blocking Resistance for Existing Systems Enabling Anonymous Web Surfing [pdf (cached), bib]
Stefan Köpsell and Ulf Hillig
In: Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society (Washington, DC, USA, 2004), ACM, pp. 47-58
The Economics of Censorship Resistance [pdf (cached), bib]
George Danezis and Ross Anderson
In: Economics and Information Security (Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2004)

2003

Thwarting Web Censorship with Untrusted Messenger Discovery [pdf (cached), bib]
Nick Feamster, Magdalena Balazinska, Winston Wang, Hari Balakrishnan and David Karger
In: Privacy Enhancing Technologies (Dresden, Germany, 2003), Springer, pp. 125-140

2002

Anonymizing Censorship Resistant Systems [pdf (cached), bib]
Andrei Serjantov
In: International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (Cambridge, MA, USA, 2002), Springer, pp. 111-120
Infranet: Circumventing Web Censorship and Surveillance [pdf (cached), bib]
Nick Feamster, Magdalena Balazinska, Greg Harfst, Hari Balakrishnan and David Karger
In: USENIX Security Symposium (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2002), USENIX

2001

Dagster: Censorship-Resistant Publishing Without Replication [pdf (cached), bib]
Adam Stubblefield and Dan S. Wallach
Technical Report (Rice University, 2001)
Tangler: A Censorship-Resistant Publishing System Based On Document Entanglements [ps (cached), bib]
Marc Waldman and David Mazières
In: Computer and Communications Security (Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2001), ACM, pp. 126-135

2000

Publius: A robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant web publishing system [pdf (cached), bib]
Marc Waldman, Aviel D. Rubin and Lorrie Faith Cranor
In: USENIX Security Symposium (Denver, CO, USA, 2000), USENIX

1996

The Eternity Service [pdf (cached), bib]
Ross J. Anderson
In: Theory and Applications of Cryptology (Prague, Czech Republic, 1996), CTU Publishing House, pp. 242-253