Here you can find an archive of selected research papers in the domain of censorship.
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Last updated: May 4, 2012
2012
SkypeMorph: Protocol Obfuscation for Tor Bridges
[pdf
(cached),
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Hooman Mohajeri Moghaddam, Baiyu Li, Mohammad Derakhshani and Ian Goldberg Technical Report (University of Waterloo, 2012)
How China Is Blocking Tor
[pdf
(cached),
bib]
Philipp Winter and Stefan Lindskog Technical Report (Karlstad University, 2012)
CensorSpoofer: Asymmetric Communication with IP Spoofing for Censorship-Resistant Web Browsing
[pdf (cached),
bib]
Qiyan Wang, Xun Gong, Giang T. K. Nguyen, Amir Houmansadr and Nikita Borisov Technical Report (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 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 Technical Report (Stanford University, 2012)
2011
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
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
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
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
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, 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),
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Ginger Perng, Michael K. Reiter and Chenxi Wang
In: International Conference on Information Hiding (Barcelona, Spain,
2005), Springer, pp. 62-76
2004
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
Infranet: Circumventing Web Censorship and Surveillance
[pdf (cached),
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Nick Feamster, Magdalena Balazinska, Greg Harfst, Hari Balakrishnan and David Karger
In: USENIX Security Symposium (San Francisco, CA, USA, 2002)