Publications related to Anonymous P2P

Promoting synergies for sustainability through peer-to-peer sharing: an analysis of drivers and barriers

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Ralph Hansmann

Peer-to-peer (P2P) sharing may foster sustainability synergistically by saving resources, reducing costs and promoting satisfaction of consumer needs and social connectivity. A survey of Swiss and Swedish consumers (N = 1522) was conducted to analyze drive ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2023

Moby: A Blackout-Resistant Anonymity Network for Mobile Devices

Bryan Alexander Ford, Antoine Rault, Amogh Pradeep, Hira Javaid

Internet blackouts are challenging environments for anonymity and censorship resistance. Existing popular anonymity networks (e.g., Freenet, I2P, Tor) rely on Internet connectivity to function, making them impracticable during such blackouts. In such a set ...

2022

Toward Internet Performance Transparency

Georgia Fragkouli

From medical support to education and remote work, our everyday lives increasingly depend on Internet performance. When users experience poor performance, however, the decentralization of the Internet allows limited visibility into which network is respons ...

EPFL2022

Fair Incentivization of Bandwidth Sharing in Decentralized Storage Networks

Verónica del Carmen Estrada Galiñanes

Peer-to-peer (p2p) networks are not independent of their peers, and the network efficiency depends on peers contributing resources. Because shared resources are not free, this contribution must be rewarded. Peers across the network may share computation po ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Analyzing and Protecting Communication Metadata

Ludovic Barman

Most communication systems (e.g., e-mails, instant messengers, VPNs) use encryption to prevent third parties from learning sensitive information. However, encrypted communications protect the contents but often leak metadata: the amount of data sent and th ...

EPFL2021

MorphIT: Morphing Packet Reports for Internet Transparency

Bryan Alexander Ford, Aikaterini Argyraki, Georgia Fragkouli

Can we improve Internet transparency without worsening user anonymity? For a long time, researchers have been proposing transparency systems, where traffic reports produced at strategic network points help assess network behavior and verify service-level a ...

Sciendo2019

MedCo: Enabling Secure and Privacy-Preserving Exploration of Distributed Clinical and Genomic Data

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Olivier Michielin, Juan Ramón Troncoso-Pastoriza, Jean Louis Raisaro, Joao André Gomes de Sá e Sousa, Mickaël Misbach

The increasing number of health-data breaches is creating a complicated environment for medical-data sharing and, consequently, for medical progress. Therefore, the development of new solutions that can reassure clinical sites by enabling privacy-preservin ...

2019

Systems and method for anonymous, low-latencey, tracking-resistant communications in a networked environment

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Bryan Alexander Ford, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Ludovic Barman

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide cryptographically-strong tracking protection with unnoticeable "single-hop" network latencies by leveraging a client-relay- server architecture, in which the clients, relays (trusted or untrusted), an ...

2018

Atom: Horizontally Scaling Strong Anonymity

Bryan Alexander Ford, Henry Nathaniel Corrigan-Gibbs

Atom is an anonymous messaging system that protects against traffic-analysis attacks. Unlike many prior systems, each Atom server touches only a small fraction of the total messages routed through the network. As a result, the system’s capacity scales near ...

Association for Computing Machinery2017

Proof-of-Personhood: Redemocratizing Permissionless Cryptocurrencies

Bryan Alexander Ford, Linus Gasser, Eleftherios Kokoris Kogias, Philipp Svetolik Jovanovic, Nicolas Gailly, Maria Fernanda Borge Chavez

Permissionless blockchain-based cryptocurrencies commonly use proof-of-work (PoW) or proof-of-stake (PoS) to ensure their security, e.g. to prevent double spending attacks. However, both approaches have disadvantages: PoW leads to massive amounts of wasted ...

IEEE2017

PrivateRide: A Privacy-Enhanced Ride-Hailing Service

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Taha Hajar, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli, Kévin Clément Huguenin, Thi Van Anh Pham, Florian Tramèr, Bastien Jacot-Guillarmod

In the past few years, we have witnessed a rise in the popularity of ride-hailing services (RHSs), an online marketplace that enables accredited drivers to use their own cars to drive ride-hailing users. Unlike other transportation services, RHSs raise sig ...

2017

PriFi: A Low-Latency and Tracking-Resistant Protocol for Local-Area Anonymous Communication

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Ludovic Barman, Bryan Alexander Ford, Mahdi Zamani, Italo Ivan Dacosta Petrocelli

Popular anonymity mechanisms such as Tor provide low communication latency but are vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks that can de-anonymize users. Moreover, known traffic-analysis-resistant techniques such as Dissent are impractical for use in latency- ...

ACM2016

Seeking Anonymity in an Internet Panopticon

Bryan Alexander Ford

Internet, users often need to assume, by default, that their every statement or action online is monitored and tracked. The Dissent project at Yale University takes a collective approach to online anonymity, based on different algorithmic foundations from ...

2015

Anchor View Allocation for Collaborative Free Viewpoint Video Streaming

Pascal Frossard

In free viewpoint video, a viewer can choose at will any camera angle or the so-called "virtual view" to observe a dynamic 3-D scene, enhancing his/her depth perception. The virtual view is synthesized using texture and depth videos of two anchor camera vi ...

2015

When Others Impinge upon Your Privacy : Interdependent Risks and Protection in a Connected World

Mathias Jacques Jean-Marc Humbert

Privacy is defined as the right to control, edit, manage, and delete information about oneself and decide when, how, and to what extent this information is communicated to others. Therefore, every person should ideally be empowered to manage and protect hi ...

EPFL2015

The Generalized Loneliness Detector and Weak System Models for k-Set Agreement

Martin Biely

This paper presents two weak partially synchronous system models Manti(n-k) and Msink(n-k), which are just strong enough for solving k-set agreement: We introduce the generalized (n-k)-loneliness failure detector L(k), which we first prove to be sufficient ...

Ieee Computer Soc2014

A Bayesian Approach to Detect Pedestrian Destination-Sequences from WiFi Signatures

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Antonin Danalet

In this paper, we propose a methodology to use the communication network infrastructure, in particular WiFi traces, to detect the sequence of activity episodes visited by pedestrians. Due to the poor quality of WiFi localization, a probabilistic method is ...

2014

Personalizing Top-k Processing Online in a Peer-to-Peer Social Tagging Network

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec

The rapidly increasing amount of user-generated content in social tagging systems provides a huge source of information. Yet, performing effective search in these systems is very challenging, especially when we seek the most appropriate items that match a ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2014

SpeakUp – A Mobile App Facilitating Audience Interaction

Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk, Sten Govaerts, Benoît Garbinato

A dynamic student-teacher interaction during class is an important part of the learning experience. However, in regular class settings and especially in large classrooms, it is a challenging task to encourage students to participate as they tend to be inti ...

2013

Privacy of Community Pseudonyms in Wireless Peer-to-Peer Networks

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Murtuza Jadliwala, Julien Freudiger, Valtteri Niemi

Wireless networks offer novel means to enhance social interactions. In particular, peer-to-peer wireless communications enable direct and real-time interaction with nearby devices and communities and could extend current online social networks by providing ...

Springer2013