* 2017-10-30 - Updated paper ``StegoTorus: A Camouflage Proxy for the Tor Anonymity System'' * 2017-10-29 - Added paper ``lib•erate, (n): A library for exposing (traffic-classification) rules and avoiding them efficiently'' - Added paper ``Your State is Not Mine: A Closer Look at Evading Stateful Internet Censorship'' * 2017-10-24 - Added paper ``When the Internet Goes Down in Bangladesh'' * 2017-10-17 - Updated paper ``Anonymizing Censorship Resistant Systems'' - Updated paper ``Fighting Censorship with Algorithms'' * 2017-10-13 - Added an onion site for CensorBib. * 2017-10-05 - Added paper ``Characterizing the Nature and Dynamics of Tor Exit Blocking'' - Added paper ``Global Measurement of DNS Manipulation'' * 2017-08-28 - Added paper ``FilteredWeb: A Framework for the Automated Search-Based Discovery of Blocked URLs'' - Updated paper ``Government mandated blocking of foreign Web content'' - Updated paper ``Whiskey, Weed, and Wukan on the World Wide Web: On Measuring Censors' Resources and Motivations'' * 2017-08-21 - Added paper ``Measuring Decentralization of Chinese Keyword Censorship via Mobile Games'' - Added paper ``The Decline of Social Media Censorship and the Rise of Self-Censorship after the 2016 Failed Turkish Coup'' - Added paper ``Autosonda: Discovering Rules and Triggers of Censorship Devices'' - Added paper ``An ISP-Scale Deployment of TapDance'' * 2017-06-27 - Added paper ``A Usability Evaluation of Tor Launcher'' - Added paper ``DeltaShaper: Enabling Unobservable Censorship-resistant TCP Tunneling over Videoconferencing Streams'' - Added paper ``Topics of Controversy: An Empirical Analysis of Web Censorship Lists'' * 2017-05-22 - Added paper ``Augur: Internet-Wide Detection of Connectivity Disruptions'' * 2017-03-27 - Added paper ``Scalable Anti-Censorship Framework Using Moving Target Defense for Web Servers'' * 2017-03-26 - Added paper ``Internet Censorship in Thailand: User Practices and Potential Threats'' - Added paper ``Investigating large-scale Internet content filtering'' - Added paper ``A terminology for talking about privacy by data minimization: Anonymity, Unlinkability, Undetectability, Unobservability, Pseudonymity, and Identity Management'' * 2017-01-21 - Added paper ``Dissecting Tor Bridges: a Security Evaluation of Their Private and Public Infrastructures'' * 2016-11-02 - Added paper ``Government mandated blocking of foreign Web content'' (thanks, David!) * 2016-10-28 - Added paper ``Poisoning the Well - Exploring the Great Firewall's Poisoned DNS Responses'' * 2016-09-16 - Added paper ``Slitheen: Perfectly Imitated Decoy Routing through Traffic Replacement'' - Added paper ``Game of Decoys: Optimal Decoy Routing Through Game Theory'' - Added paper ``Practical Censorship Evasion Leveraging Content Delivery Networks'' * 2016-08-09 - Added paper ``DNS-sly: Avoiding Censorship through Network Complexity'' - Added paper ``Matryoshka: Hiding Secret Communication in Plain Sight'' - Added paper ``GhostPost: Seamless Restoration of Censored Social Media Posts'' - Added paper ``Censors' Delay in Blocking Circumvention Proxies'' - Added paper ``The Politics of Routing: Investigating the Relationship Between AS Connectivity and Internet Freedom'' * 2016-07-20 - Added paper ``A Framework for the Game-theoretic Analysis of Censorship Resistance'' - Added paper ``SoK: Making Sense of Censorship Resistance Systems'' - Added paper ``Salmon: Robust Proxy Distribution for Censorship Circumvention'' * 2016-07-06 - Added paper ``Satellite: Joint Analysis of CDNs and Network-Level Interference'' * 2016-07-04 - Added paper ``Analyzing Internet Censorship in Pakistan'' (thanks, Antonio!) * 2016-07-01 - Added paper ``Leveraging Internet Services to Evade Censorship'' (thanks, David!) - Added missing author to paper ``An Analysis of China's "Great Cannon"'' * 2016-06-02 - Added paper ``Games Without Frontiers: Investigating Video Games as a Covert Channel'' * 2016-05-24 - Added paper ``Rebound: Decoy Routing on Asymmetric Routes Via Error Messages'' (thanks, David!) * 2016-05-20 - Added paper ``Mailet: Instant Social Networking under Censorship'' - Added paper ``CovertCast: Using Live Streaming to Evade Internet Censorship'' * 2016-03-22 - Added paper ``SkypeLine: Robust Hidden Data Transmission for VoIP'' * 2016-03-14 - Added paper ``Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools: Escaping the Control of the Syrian Regime'' - Added paper ``Algorithmically Bypassing Censorship on Sina Weibo with Nondeterministic Homophone Substitutions'' * 2016-03-13 - Added paper ``SoK: Towards Grounding Censorship Circumvention in Empiricism'' * 2015-11-20 - Added paper ``Can Censorship Measurements Be Safe(r)?'' - Added paper ``A Case for Marrying Censorship Measurements with Circumvention'' * 2015-11-05 - Added paper ``Rook: Using Video Games as a Low-Bandwidth Censorship Resistant Communication Platform'' - Added paper ``Known Unknowns: An Analysis of Twitter Censorship in Turkey'' * 2015-10-30 - Added paper ``Examining How the {G}reat {F}irewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers'' * 2015-10-20 - Added paper ``CacheBrowser: Bypassing Chinese Censorship without Proxies Using Cached Content'' - Added paper ``Seeing through Network-Protocol Obfuscation'' * 2015-09-06 - Added paper ``Forgive Us our SYNs: Technical and Ethical Considerations for Measuring Internet Filtering'' - Added paper ``BridgeSPA: Improving Tor Bridges with Single Packet Authorization'' - Removed paper ``Half Baked: The opportunity to secure cookie-based identifiers from passive surveillance'' because there's not much connection to Internet censorship. * 2015-08-12 - Added paper ``Understanding Internet Censorship Policy: The Case of Greece'' - Added paper ``Half Baked: The opportunity to secure cookie-based identifiers from passive surveillance'' - Added paper ``Every Rose Has Its Thorn: Censorship and Surveillance on Social Video Platforms in China'' - Added paper ``An Analysis of China's "Great Cannon"'' - Added paper ``Marionette: A Programmable Network-Traffic Obfuscation System'' - Added paper ``Encore: Lightweight Measurement of Web Censorship with Cross-Origin Requests'' * 2015-07-04 - Added paper ``Ethical Concerns for Censorship Measurement'' - Added paper ``Hiding Amongst the Clouds: A Proposal for Cloud-based Onion Routing'' * 2015-05-24 - Added paper ``Blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting'' - Added paper ``Analyzing the Great Firewall of China Over Space and Time'' * 2015-05-10 - Added paper ``Reverse-engineering censorship in China: Randomized experimentation and participant observation'' - Added paper ``Censorship Resistance as a Side-Effect'' - Added paper ``A Censorship-Resistant, Privacy-Enhancing and Fully Decentralized Name System'' * 2015-05-09 - Added paper ``Anonymity and Censorship Resistance in Unstructured Overlay Networks'' - Added paper ``Characterizing Web Censorship Worldwide: Another Look at the OpenNet Initiative Data'' - Added paper ``GoHop: Personal VPN to Defend from Censorship'' * 2015-04-21 - Added paper ``Internet Censorship detection: A survey'' (thanks, Antonio!) * 2015-03-19 - Fix broken links (thanks, David!) * 2015-03-03 - Added paper ``Monitoring Internet Censorship with UBICA'' (thanks, Antonio!) * 2014-12-04 - Added paper ``Dust: A Blocking-Resistant Internet Transport Protocol'' - Added paper ``Censorship in the Wild: Analyzing Internet Filtering in Syria'' - Added paper ``A Look at the Consequences of Internet Censorship Through an ISP Lens'' - Added paper ``Automated Detection and Fingerprinting of Censorship Block Pages'' - Added paper ``Facet: Streaming over Videoconferencing for Censorship Circumvention'' * 2014-09-05 - Added paper ``LibFTE: A Toolkit for Constructing Practical, Format-Abiding Encryption Schemes'' - Added paper ``TapDance: End-to-Middle Anticensorship without Flow Blocking'' - Added paper ``Global Network Interference Detection over the RIPE Atlas Network'' - Added paper ``Towards a Comprehensive Picture of the Great Firewall's DNS Censorship'' - Added paper ``TRIST: Circumventing Censorship with Transcoding-Resistant Image Steganography'' - Added paper ``Facade: High-Throughput, Deniable Censorship Circumvention Using Web Search'' - Added paper ``Toward automatic censorship detection in microblogs'' - Added paper ``Gaining Insight into AS-level Outages through Analysis of Internet Background Radiation'' * 2014-06-13 - Added paper ``Measuring Freenet in the Wild: Censorship-resilience under Observation'' - Added paper ``CloudTransport: Raising the Stakes in the Unobservability Game'' * 2014-05-19 - Added paper ``Dimming the Internet: Detecting Throttling as a Mechanism of Censorship in Iran'' - Added paper ``VPN Gate: A Volunteer-Organized Public VPN Relay System with Blocking Resistance for Bypassing Government Censorship Firewalls'' - Added paper ``Tweeting Under Pressure: Analyzing Trending Topics and Evolving Word Choice on Sina Weibo'' - Added paper ``Adapting Social Spam Infrastructure for Political Censorship'' - Added paper ``On the Feasibility of a Censorship Resistant Decentralized Name System'' * 2014-02-25 - Added paper ``Hold-On: Protecting Against On-Path DNS Poisoning'' - Added paper ``#h00t: Censorship Resistant Microblogging'' - Updated paper ``Message In A Bottle: Sailing Past Censorship'' * 2014-01-09 - Added paper ``Detecting Intentional Packet Drops on the Internet via TCP/IP Side Channels'' - Added paper ``No Direction Home: The True Cost of Routing Around Decoys'' * 2013-10-12 - Added paper ``Cover Your ACKs: Pitfalls of Covert Channel Censorship Circumvention'' - Added paper ``Protocol Misidentification Made Easy with Format-Transforming Encryption'' * 2013-09-21 - Added paper ``A Method for Identifying and Confirming the Use of URL Filtering Products for Censorship'' - Added paper ``Revealing Middlebox Interference with Tracebox'' * 2013-09-03 - Added paper ``ScrambleSuit: A Polymorphic Network Protocol to Circumvent Censorship'' * 2013-08-20 - Added paper ``Building Dissent Networks: Towards Effective Countermeasures against Large-Scale Communications Blackouts'' - Added paper ``Towards a Censorship Analyser for Tor'' - Added paper ``Towards Illuminating a Censorship Monitor's Model to Facilitate Evasion'' - Added paper ``Internet Censorship in Iran: A First Look'' - Added paper ``The Anatomy of Web Censorship in Pakistan'' - Added paper ``Five Incidents, One Theme: Twitter Spam as a Weapon to Drown Voices of Protest'' - Added paper ``The Velocity of Censorship: High-Fidelity Detection of Microblog Post Deletions'' * 2013-06-11 - Added paper ``Identity-Based Steganography and Its Applications to Censorship Resistance'' - Added paper ``SWEET: Serving the Web by Exploiting Email Tunnels'' - Added paper ``OSS: Using Online Scanning Services for Censorship Circumvention'' * 2013-06-06 - Added paper ``Regional Variation in Chinese Internet Filtering'' (Thanks, Joss) * 2013-04-11 - Added paper ``How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression'' (Thanks, Joss) * 2013-04-09 - Added paper ``The Eternity Service'' (Thanks, Joss) * 2013-04-05 - Added paper ``Extensive Analysis and Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of Tor Bridge Discovery'' - Added paper ``Mapping Local Internet Control'' * 2013-03-09 - Added paper ``The Parrot is Dead: Observing Unobservable Network Communications'' * 2013-03-06 - Added paper ``Secure Communication over Diverse Transports'' * 2013-01-03 - Added paper ``I want my voice to be heard: IP over Voice-over-IP for unobservable censorship circumvention'' - Added paper ``rBridge: User Reputation based Tor Bridge Distribution with Privacy Preservation'' * 2012-12-14 - Added paper ``Anonymizing Censorship Resistant Systems'' - Added paper ``Dagster: Censorship-Resistant Publishing Without Replication'' * 2012-11-12 - Added paper ``The Hidden Internet of Iran: Private Address Allocations on a National Network'' * 2012-09-14 - Added paper ``Routing Around Decoys'' - Added paper ``StegoTorus: A Camouflage Proxy for the Tor Anonymity System'' - Added paper ``CensorSpoofer: Asymmetric Communication using IP Spoofing for Censorship-Resistant Web Browsing'' - Added paper ``SkypeMorph: Protocol Obfuscation for Tor Bridges'' * 2012-08-27 - Added paper ``Detecting Forged TCP Reset Packets'' - Added paper ``How to Achieve Blocking Resistance for Existing Systems Enabling Anonymous Web Surfing'' (Thanks, Georg) * 2012-08-21 - Added paper ``Tor Instead of IP'' * 2012-08-14 - Added paper ``Publius: A robust, tamper-evident, censorship-resistant web publishing system'' - Added paper ``Tangler: A Censorship-Resistant Publishing System Based On Document Entanglements'' * 2012-08-08 - Added paper ``Whiskey, Weed, and Wukan on the World Wide Web: On Measuring Censors' Resources and Motivations'' - Added paper ``OONI: Open Observatory of Network Interference'' - Added paper ``Inferring Mechanics of Web Censorship Around the World'' - Added paper ``Bootstrapping Communications into an Anti-Censorship System'' - Added paper ``One-way indexing for plausible deniability in censorship resistant storage'' - Added paper ``How the Great Firewall of China is Blocking Tor'' * 2012-07-23 - Added paper ``Fine-Grained Censorship Mapping: Information Sources, Legality and Ethics'' - Fixed links to FOCI'11 papers due to SSL warning * 2012-07-18 - Added paper ``The Collateral Damage of Internet Censorship by DNS Injection'' * 2012-07-16 - Added page numbers for paper ``Evading Censorship with Browser-Based Proxies'' - Added paper ``Message In A Bottle: Sailing Past Censorship'' * 2012-06-12 - Removed technical reports from 2012 since they are (probably) work-in-progress * 2012-06-06 - ``Evading Censorship with Browser-Based Proxies'' will be presented at PETS'12 * 2012-05-26 - Added HTML anchors to make linking to specific papers easier - Updated local copies * 2012-05-24 - Added paper ``Chipping Away at Censorship Firewalls with User-Generated Content'' * 2012-05-04 - Added paper ``Fighting Censorship with Algorithms'' - Added paper ``Pass it on: Social Networks Stymie Censors'' - Added local copies for all papers * 2012-03-26 - Added paper ``Censorship Resistance Revisited'' - Added paper ``Proximax: A Measurement Based System for Proxies Dissemination'' - Added country to all BibTeX entries - Added this Changelog