Data Sharing and Anonymization
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Privacy, security, legal, proprietary ownership, and other economic
complications often prevent distribution of Internet data. This
section describes the benefits and drawbacks of data anonymization
efforts in general as well as detailing specific anonymization
techniques.
CAIDA's research on anonymization techniques and implications is supported by the
PREDICT project.
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Data Sharing Overview
Researchers require current data on Internet traffic in order to
study all aspects of a rapidly evolving communication system. Areas
of research include routing, topology, security, workload and
utilization characterization, modeling, simulation, protocol
development, wireless, and economic data. Information on
CAIDA's datasets can be found in the data section of our website. CAIDA's datasets are also indexed
in DatCat, the Internet Measurement Data Catalog.
Data sharing requires balancing many privacy, security, and legal
interests. Anonymization of data can mitigate privacy and security
concerns and comply with legal requirements. Anonymization is not
invulnerable; countermeasures that compromise current anonymization
techniques can expose protected information in released datasets.
- Anonymization Techniques
- Ruoming Pang, Mark Allman, Vern Paxson, Jason Lee, "The Devil and Packet Trace Anonymization", ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Archive Volume 36 , Issue 1 January 2006
- Jinliang Fan, Jun Xu, Mostafa H. Ammar, Sue B. Moon, "Prefix-Preserving IP Address Anonymization", Computer Networks, Volume 46, Issue 2 , 7 October 2004, Pages 253-272, Elsevier
- Jun Xu, Jinliang Fan, Mostafa Ammar, Sue B. Moon, "On the Design and Performance of Prefix-Preserving IP Traffic Trace Anonymization",ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop 2001
- Jun Xu, Jinliang Fan, Mostafa Ammar, Sue B. Moon, "Prefix-Preserving IP Address Anonymization: Measurement-based Security Evaluation and a New Cryptography-based Scheme", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, Paris, 2002
- De-anonymization Techniques
- Scott E. Coull, Charles V. Wright, Fabian Monrose, Michael P. Collins, Michael K. Reiter, "Playing Devil's Advocate: Inferring Sensitive Information from Anonymized Network Traces"
- Jeffrey Pang, Ben Greenstein, Srinivasan Seshan, Ramakrishna Gummadi, David Wetherall, "802.11 User Fingerprinting", Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Mobile computing and networking, Montreal, 2007
- Alternatives to Anonymization
- Econonmic, Legal and Policy Issues
- Paul Ohm, Douglas Sicker, Dirk Grunwald, "Legal Issues Surrounding Monitoring During Network Research (Invited Paper)", IMC 2007
- Jason Franklin, Adrian Perrig, Vern Paxson, Stefan Savage, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Internet Miscreants", Conference on Computer and Communications Security Archive Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2007
- Burstein, Aaron J., "Toward a Culture of Cybersecurity Research" (2008). SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1113014
- Burstein, Aaron J., "Conducting Cybersecurity Research Legally and Ethically"
- Privacy
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