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ECE598NB Privacy Enhancing Technologies Spring 2006 Outline Privacy Overview Course Topics Course Structure Privacy Define privacy Privacy History Privacy has always existed Cities / large populations have made


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ECE598NB

Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Spring 2006

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Outline

  • Privacy Overview
  • Course Topics
  • Course Structure
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Privacy

  • Define privacy
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Privacy History

  • Privacy has always existed
  • Cities / large populations have made

privacy easier

– Easier to “get lost in the crowd”

  • Computers make privacy harder

– More information generated – More communications – Better methods to sift through information

  • Are we trying to go against the tide?
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Trade-offs

  • Security and privacy are trade-offs

– Can achieve perfect online privacy by staying

  • ffline
  • Privacy enhancing technologies change

the trade-offs

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Course Topics

  • First (roughly) half: anonymity

– Anonymity underlies other privacy technologies – Classic designs – Recent implementations – P2P anonymity – Common attacks – Analysis techniques – Censorship resistance

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Course Topics

  • Digital Cash
  • Anonymous Credentials
  • Private Trust Negotiation
  • Electronic Voting
  • Location Privacy
  • RFID Privacy
  • Database Privacy
  • Private Information Retrieval
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Course Topics

  • Private Computation / Aggregation
  • Privacy in IDS
  • Economics of Privacy
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Course Structure Your Responsibilities

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Reading Papers

  • Must read assigned papers before class
  • Must email summaries of papers
  • One paragraph summary of paper content
  • Two or three:

– Criticisms – Praises – Confusing points

  • Email to nikita@uiuc.edu
  • Do this for the two papers next lecture
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Presenting Papers

  • Present paper before class

– Explain paper content (~15 minutes), lead discussion (~20 minutes) – Two or three times per person – Make sure to include discussion points, questions, points of disagreement – Meet with me at least one day before class to discuss paper, slides

  • Be aware of travel schedule (will be posted)
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Discussion Summary

  • Experiment: Course Blog

– (not up yet)

  • Summarize paper discussion in class

– Two or three times per person

  • Also encouraged:

– Further on-blog discussion – Additional posts – External participation

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Projects

  • (only if taking course for 4 credits)
  • Original research project

– Anything related to privacy – Project suggestions will be posted

  • Groups of 2-3
  • Deliverables

– Presentation for the class (~20 minutes) – Conference-quality report (~10-14 pages)

  • Can be combined with Prof. Gunter’s class

– Jointly advised and graded

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For next class

  • Read the two papers

– “Privacy Enhancing Technologies for the Internet” and “… Part II: Five Years Later”

  • Email me summaries
  • Sign up to present, scribe
  • http://nikita.ca/work/ece598nb