Reading list

Documents to read and perhaps summarize.

• Do circumvention tools promote democratic values? Exploring the correlates of anticensorship technology adoption in China, Journal of Information Technology & Politics 2018
  • There is a page for what appears to be a longer preprint at SSRN, but the PDF links do not work
• The unbalancing act: proxy preservation for censorship resistance systems, MS thesis 2019
• Distributed Detection of Tor Directory Authorities Censorship in Mexico, TICS 2019
• Tithonus: A Bitcoin Based Censorship Resilient System, PETS 2019
• Turbo Tunnel, a good way to design censorship circumvention protocols, FOCI 2020
• Come as You Are: Helping Unmodified Clients Bypass Censorship with Server-side Evasion, SIGCOMM 2020
• Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption, Asia CCS 2020
• Iran: Tightening the Net 2020, Article 19
• A Survey of Worldwide Censorship Techniques, Internet-Draft
• How China Detects and Blocks Shadowsocks, IMC 2020
• Censored Planet: An Internet-wide, Longitudinal Censorship Observatory, CCS 2020
• Measuring DoT/DoH Blocking Using OONI Probe: a Preliminary Study, DNS Privacy Workshop 2021
• Clairvoyance: Inferring Blocklist Use on the Internet, PAM 2021
• Throttling Twitter: an emerging censorship technique in Russia
• Defeating DNN-Based Traffic Analysis Systems in Real-Time With Blind Adversarial Perturbations, USENIX Security 2021
• How Great is the Great Firewall? Measuring China's DNS Censorship, USENIX Security 2021
• Your Censor is My Censor: Weaponizing Censorship Infrastructure for Availability Attacks, IEEE WOOT 2021
• Even Censors Have a Backup: Examining China's Double HTTPS Censorship Middleboxes, ACM FOCI 2021
• A multi-perspective view of Internet censorship in Myanmar, ACM FOCI 2021
• Chinese Wall or Swiss Cheese? Keyword filtering in the Great Firewall of China, ACM WWW 2021
• Understanding the Impact of Encrypted DNS on Internet Censorship, ACM WWW 2021
• Understanding the Practices of Global Censorship through Accurate, End-to-End Measurements, ACM SIGMETRICS 2022
• In-Depth Evaluation of the Impact of National-Level DNS Filtering on DNS Resolvers over Space and Time, Electronics 2022
• OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting, USENIX Security 2022
• OUStralopithecus: Overt User Simulation for Censorship Circumvention, WPES 2021
• Locating and Examining Censorship Devices, CoNEXT 2022
• Security Notions for Fully Encrypted Protocols, FOCI 2023
• Chasing Shadows: A security analysis of the ShadowTLS proxy, FOCI 2023
• CensorWatch: On the Implementation of Online Censorship in India, FOCI 2023
• Advancing the Art of Censorship Data Analysis, FOCI 2023
• Security Foundations for Application-Based Covert Communication Channels IEEE S&P 2022
• TELEPATH: A Minecraft-based Covert Communication System, IEEE S&P 2023
• Minecraft tunnels for covert communications, Entertainment Computing 2025
• Estimating the Cost of Internet Censorship in China: Evidence from a Gamified Remote Platform, Journalism and Media 2023
• NetShuffle: Circumventing Censorship with Shuffle Proxies at the Edge, IEEE S&P 2024
• Global, Passive Detection of Connection Tampering, SIGCOMM 2023
• Is Custom Congestion Control a Bad Idea for Circumvention Tools?
• I(ra)nconsistencies: Novel Insights into Iran's Censorship
• 1-800-Censorship: Analyzing internet censorship data using the Internet Yellow Pages, FOCI 2025
• Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) in Censorship Circumvention
• Fingerprint-resistant DTLS for usage in Snowflake
• An Improved BGP Internet Graph for Optimizing Refraction Proxy Placement
• A Case for Machine-Checked Verification of Circumvention Systems
• CenPush: Blocking-Resistant Control Channel Using Push Notifications, PETS 2025