Lectures related to Anonymous Communication: Motivations and Approaches

Technologies for Identity & Anonymity

Explores technologies for identity and anonymity, including e-ID, social media identities, and cryptographic signatures.

Privacy Technologies: Some Privacy Technologies (part II)

Explores anonymous communication systems, attribute-based credentials, the Tor network, and other privacy technologies.

Anonymous communications: Quantifying Anonymity

Delves into quantifying anonymity, naive approaches, DC-networks, and resolving collisions.

Anonymity Online: Techniques and Weaknesses

Explores online anonymity techniques and weaknesses, including bypassing geo-blocking and avoiding tracking.

Anonymous Communications: Technologies and Challenges

Explores the challenges and technologies of anonymous communications, emphasizing the importance of privacy in modern communication systems.

Anonymous Communications: Tor and Internet Privacy

Examines anonymous communications using Tor to protect privacy and navigate internet censorship, discussing its history, functionality, and limitations.

Anonymity in Communication: Tor and Cryptographic Protocols

Explores anonymity in communication, focusing on Tor, cryptographic protocols, and challenges in achieving perfect anonymity.

Anonymous Communications: Mix Networks and Tor

Explores anonymous communications using mix networks and Tor, emphasizing privacy, metadata vulnerability, and network design challenges.

Contact Tracing and Cryptography

Explores contact tracing in public spaces and the role of cryptography in ensuring secure and private data transmission.

Anonymous Communications: Toolbox for Privacy Engineering

Covers the toolbox for privacy engineering, focusing on anonymous communications and the challenges with encryption and metadata encoding.

Safe Machine Learning: Cryptographic Opportunities

Explores the intersection between machine learning and cryptography, focusing on safe machine learning through cryptographic tools and models.

Privacy-Preserving Systems: Anonymity and Security

Explores online privacy, threats to anonymity, metadata implications, and approaches to achieve privacy.

Homomorphic Encryption: Delegating Calculations Securely

Explores homomorphic encryption, enabling secure computations on encrypted data without data exposure, with applications in healthcare and finance.

Privacy technologies and data protection

Explores privacy importance, PETS, anti-surveillance technologies, and the SwissCovid case study.

Online Tracking: Stateful vs. Stateless Methods

Explores online tracking methods, including canvas and AudioContext API fingerprinting, and their privacy implications.

Anonymous Credentials: Binding Identity to Physical Authentication

Covers the binding of anonymous credentials to human identity through visual authentication and cryptographic protocols.

Censorship Resistance

Explores censorship resistance technologies to ensure freedom of expression and access to information online.

Anonymous Authorization: Privacy Engineering Toolbox

Covers anonymous authorization, zero-knowledge proofs, attribute-based credentials, and practical issues in anonymous authentication.

Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Introduces a course on Privacy Enhancing Technologies covering various mechanisms and emphasizing privacy as a security property.

Homomorphic Encryption: Cloud and Aggregation

Explores homomorphic encryption for secure cloud computing and data aggregation.