Recent publications from the Censored Planet and related projects.
Our research community is a vibrant and growing subfield that exists at the intersection of networking, security and privacy, Internet measurement, and social and political science. Our major publication venues include systems security and privacy conferences (USENIX Security, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, NDSS, PETS, and SIGCOMM) and measurement conferences (ACM IMC), as well as more specialized interdisciplinary workshops (USENIX FOCI).
Presented in reverse chronological order.
March 2021 Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC) 2021
@inproceedings{vyas2021lost,
title = {Lost in Transmission: Investigating Filtering of COVID-19 Websites},
author = {Vyas, Anjali and Sundara Raman, Ram and Ceccio, Nick and Lutscher, Philipp and Ensafi, Roya},
booktitle={In Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC)},
year={2021}
}
November 2020 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2020
@inproceedings{sundararaman2020censoredplanet,
title = {Censored Planet: An Internet-Wide, Longitudinal Censorship Observatory},
author = {Sundara Raman, Ram and Shenoy, Prerana and Kohls, Katharina and Ensafi, Roya},
booktitle={In ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS)},
year={2020}
}
October 2020 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
@inproceedings{sundararaman2020investigating,
title={{Investigating Large Scale HTTPS Interception in Kazakhstan}},
author={R. Sundara Raman, L. Evdokimov, E. Wustrow, A. Halderman, and R. Ensafi},
booktitle={In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)},
year={2020}
}
February 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
@inproceedings{sundararaman2020measuring,
title={Measuring the Deployment of Network Censorship Filters at Global Scale},
author={Sundara Raman, Ram and Stoll, Adrian and Dalek, Jakub and Ramesh, Reethika and Scott, Will and Ensafi, Roya},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2020, San Diego, California, USA},
year={2020}
}
February 2020 Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS)
@inproceedings{ndss20-russia,
title={Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia},
author={R. Ramesh, R. Sundara Raman, M. Bernhard, V. Ongkowijaya, L. Evdokimov, A. Edmundson, S. Sprecher, M. Ikram, R.Ensafi},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2020, San Diego, California, USA},
year={2020}
}
November 2018 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
@inproceedings{Allison2018403,
title={403 Forbidden: A Global View of CDN Geoblocking},
author={Allison McDonald and Matthew Bernhard and Luke Valenta and Benjamin VanderSloot and Will Scott and Nick Sullivan and J. Alex Halderman and Roya Ensafi},
booktitle={ACM Internet Measurement Conference},
year={2018}
}
August 2018 USENIX Security Symposium
@inproceedings{Ben2018Quack:,
title={Quack: Scalable Remote Measurement of Application-Layer Censorship},
author={Ben VanderSloot and Allison McDonald and Will Scott and J. Alex Halderman and Roya Ensafi},
booktitle={USENIX Security Symposium},
year={2018}
}
February 2018 IEEE Security & Privacy (S&P)
@article{Paul2018Towards,
author={Paul Pearce and Roya Ensafi and Frank Li and Nick Feamster and Vern Paxson},
title={Towards Continual Measurement of Global Network-Level Censorship},
journal={IEEE Security & Privacy},
volume={16},
number={1},
year={2018}
}
August 2017 USENIX Security
@inproceedings{Paul2017Global,
title={Global Measurement of DNS Manipulation},
author={Paul Pearce and Ben Jones and Frank Li and Roya Ensafi and Nick Feamster and Nick Weaver and Vern Paxson},
booktitle={USENIX Security},
year={2017}
}
May 2017 IEEE Security and Privacy (S&P)
@inproceedings{Paul2017Augur:,
title={Augur: Internet-Wide Detection of Connectivity Disruptions},
author={Paul Pearce and Roya Ensafi and Frank Li and Nick Feamster and Vern Paxson},
booktitle={IEEE Security and Privacy},
year={2017}
}
March 2017 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
@inproceedings{Manaf2017A,
title={A Look at Infrastructure Geolocation in Public and Commercial Databases},
author={Manaf Gharaibeh and Anant Shah and Bradley Huffaker and Han Zhang and Roya Ensafi and Christos Papadopoulos},
booktitle={ACM Internet Measurement Conference},
year={2017}
}
October 2015 ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC)
@inproceedings{Roya2015Examining,
title={Examining How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers},
author={Roya Ensafi and David Fifield and Philipp Winter and Nick Feamster and Nicholas Weaver and Vern Paxson},
booktitle={ ACM Internet Measurement Conference},
year={2015}
}
August 2015 ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research
@inproceedings{Ben2015Ethical,
title={Ethical Concerns for Censorship Measurement},
author={Ben Jones and Roya Ensafi and Nick Feamster and Vern Paxson and Nick Weaver},
booktitle={ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Ethics in Networked Systems Research},
year={2015}
}
August 2015 USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (USENIX FOCI)
@inproceedings{Bill2015An,
title={An Analysis of China's Great Cannon},
author={Bill Marczak and Nicholas Weaver and Jakub Dalek and Roya Ensafi and David Fifield and Sarah McKune and Arn Rey and John Scott-Railton and Ron Deibert and Vern Paxson},
booktitle={USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet},
year={2015}
}
July 2015 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS)
@inproceedings{Roya2015Analyzing,
title={Analyzing the Great Firewall of China Over Space and Time},
author={Roya Ensafi and Philipp Winter and Abdullah Mueen and Jedidiah R. Crandall},
booktitle={Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium},
year={2015}
}
August 2014 USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet (USENIX FOCI)
@inproceedings{Collin2014Global,
title={Global Censorship Detection over the RIPE Atlas Network},
author={Collin Anderson and Phillipp Winter and Roya Ensafi},
booktitle={USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet},
year={2014}
}
March 2014 Passive and Active Measurement (PAM)
@inproceedings{Roya2014Detecting,
title={Detecting intentional packet drops on the Internet via TCP/IP side channels},
author={Roya Ensafi, Jeffrey Knockel, Geoffrey Alexander, Jedidiah R Crandall},
booktitle={Passive and Active Measurement},
year={2014}
}
August 2010 USENIX Security Symposium
@inproceedings{Roya2010Idle,
title={Idle Port Scanning & Non-interference Analysis of Network Protocol Stacks Using Model Checking},
author={Roya Ensafi and Jong Chun Park and Deepak Kapur and Jedidiah R. Crandall},
booktitle={USENIX Security Symposium},
year={2010}
}