Resources

Background reading

In particular, additions of useful resources in related categories might include, but are certainly not limited to:

• Human-factors and usability studies, such as Why Johnny Can't Encrypt.
• Analyses of business models and how to get businesses to be socially responsible.
• Social science and public policy resources.

The resources on this page should be considered background reading. They may help to inform opinions on the projects discussed in the workshop. There is no attempt here to duplicate, for example, the extensive archives at the EFF, EPIC, or any of many standards organizations. Depending on popular opinion, this page might be divided into two lists: those that everyone in the workshop should read, and background information that may or may not be useful but is gathered here as a convenience. We may also make another listing of all papers that have been submitted to the CFP Proceedings, or to the TIS special issue. (Papers contributed just to the workshop itself can be found here.)

• The Freenet Project. This project is trying to implement a censorship-proof, decentralized, anonymous document store. This makes it possible to permanently post information or opinions that may be unpopular or illegal in various jurisdictions. It's similar to the original idea of the Eternity Service.
• The Crowds System. This project helps make surfing web more anonymous, by causing HTTP fetches to act like messages in an anonymous remailer and hence hiding the endpoints of the connection.
• Yenta. This project attempts to find people with similar interests and aggregate them into groups, so they may then talk one-to-one or to everyone in the group. It does so in a decentralized, privacy-protecting fashion, so there is no central point to attack with subpoenas or taps.
• The Internet's growing loss of transparency. The impending exhaustion of IP addresses, in addition to NAT, Intranets, and certain types of firewalls, is threatening the transparency of the network -- as stated in RFC2775, "the original Internet concept of a single universal logical addressing scheme, and the mechanisms by which packets may flow from source to destination essentially unaltered." This loss of transparency threatens the end-to-end performance of the network, and has potentially serious consequences for the ability of IPSEC and other cryptographic technologies to do their job in protecting the ends of a connection from interception in the middle.
• Stefan Savage seems to be working on some projects that may be useful for the DNS project, or at least for making the underlying network infrastructure more reliable in general; see in particular his paper on tracing back where the packets in a distributed denial-of-service attack may be coming from and perhaps also the papers on STING (a TCP-based network measurement tool that doesn't require cooperation at the other end) and the paper on TCP congestion control (which penalizes bad actors instead of, as is currently the case, rewarding them); both are available here.

Contributed papers