Anonymous Messaging
Investigators: Pramod Viswanath and Carl Gunter
Researchers: Giulia Fanti and Shaileshh Venkatakrishnan
Anonymity is a basic right and a core aspect of Internet. Recently, there has been tremendous interest in anonymity and privacy in social networks, motivated by the natural desire to share one’s opinions without the fear of judgment or personal reprisal (by parents, authorities, and the public). We propose to study the fundamental questions associated with building such a semi-distributed, anonymous messaging platform, which aims to keep anonymous the identity of the source who initially posted a message as well as the identity of the relays who approved and propagated the message.
Hard Problems Addressed
- Scalability and composability
Publications
- Giulia Fanti, Peter Kairouz, Sewoong Oh, Kannan Ramchandran and Pramod Viswanath, “Rumor Source Obfuscation on Irregular Trees”, ACM SIGMETRICS, Antibes Juan-les-Pins, June 14-18, 2016. [full text]
- Giulia Fanti, Peter Kairouz, Sewoong Oh, Kannan Ramchandran and Pramod Viswanath, “Metadata-conscious Anonymous Messaging”, International Conference on Machine Learning, New York, NY, June 19-24, 2016. [full text]
- Giulia Fanti, Shaileshh Venkatakrishnan, and Pramod Viswanath, “Dandelion: Redesigning BitCoin Networking for Anonymity”, ACM SIGMETRICS, Urbana, IL, June 5-9, 2017. [full text]
Presentations
- July 2016, NSA SoS Quarterly Meeting, poster session, Peter Kairouz, Sewoong Oh, Kannan Ramchandran, Giulia Fanti, and Pramond Viswanath: Metadata Conscious Anonymous Messaging [poster]
- September 2016, ITI Joint Trust and Security/Science of Security Seminar, Giulia Fanti: Spy vs. Spy: Anonymous Messaging over Networks [video & slides]
- November 2016, NSA SoS Quarterly Meeting, poster session, Giulia Fanti, Peter Kairouz, Sewoong Oh, Kannen Ramohandran, and Pramod Viswanath: Spy vs. Spy: Anonymous Broadcasting over Networks [poster]
- February 2017, NSA SoS Quarterly Meeting, lablet presentation, Giulia Fanti: Anonymity in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network [slides]
- February 2017, NSA SoS Quarterly Meeting, lablet presentation, Nitin Vaidya: Privacy & Security in Machine Learning/Optimization [slides]
- February 2017, ITI Joint Trust and Security/Science of Security Seminar, Giulia Fanti: Anonymity in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network [slides]
- February 2017, Illinois Bitcoin Meetup, Jump Labs at Research Park, University of Illinois of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Giulia Fanti: Anonymity in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network
- March 2017, Security Seminar, Computer Science, University of California Berkeley, Giulia Fanti: Anonymity in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network
- March 2017, Security Seminar, MIT, Shaileshh Venkatakrishnan: Dandelion: Redesigning the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network for Anonymity
- March 2017, ISL Colloquium, EE Department, Stanford University, Giulia Fanti: Anonymity in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network
- March 2017, EE Department Seminar, University of Wisconsin, Giulia Fanti: Anonymity in the Bitcoin Peer-to-Peer Network