The 2024 best HotPETs talk is:
Automating the discovery and reverse-engineering of proprietary cryptography in popular Chinese applications Mona Wang (Princeton University), Jeffrey Knockel (Citizen Lab at University of Toronto), Jonathan Mayer (Princeton University), Prateek Mittal (Princeton University
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The 2024 best artifact award goes to...
PRAC: Round-Efficient 3-Party MPC for Dynamic Data Structures by Sajin Sasy, Adithya Vadapalli, Ian Goldberg #pets24
The winners of the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award are (in no particular order)...
MixMatch: Flow Matching for Mixnet Traffic, Lennart Oldenburg (COSIC, KU Leuven), Marc Juarez (University of Edinburgh), Enrique Argones Rúa (COSIC, KU Leuven), Claudia Diaz (COSIC, KU Leuven, and Nym Technologies, SA)
and Client-side and Server-side Tracking on Meta: Effectiveness and Accuracy Asmaa El Fraihi (CNRS, INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique), Nardjes Amieur (CNRS, INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique), Oana Goga (CNRS, INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique), and Walter Rudametkin (INRIA)
The runners-up for the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award are (in no particular order)...
Exploring the Privacy Experiences of Closeted Users of Online Dating Services in the US Elijah Bouma-Sims (Carnegie Mellon University), Sanjnah Ananda Kumar (Carnegie Mellon University), Lorrie Faith Cranor (Carnegie Mellon University)
and Media talks Privacy: Unraveling a Decade of Privacy Discourse around the World Shujaat Mirza (New York University), Corban Villa (New York University Abu Dhabi), and Christina Poepper (New York University Abu Dhabi)
and Over Fences and Into Yards: Privacy Threats and Concerns of Commercial Satellites Rachel McAmis (University of Washington), Mattea Sim (University of Indiana Bloomington), Mia Bennett (University of Washington), Tadayoshi Kohno (University of Washington)
and Interest-disclosing Mechanisms for Advertising are Privacy-Exposing (not Preserving) Yohan Beugin (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Patrick McDaniel (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
The runners-up for The Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies are I Still Know What You Watched Last Sunday: Privacy of the HbbTV Protocol in the European Smart TV Landscape, by Carlotta Tagliaro, Florian Hahn, Riccardo Sepe, Alessio Aceti, Martina Lindorfer . 30th Annual Network and Distributed System Security, NDSS 2023 and
Tracking, Profiling, and Ad Targeting in the Alexa Echo Smart Speaker Ecosystem, by @umariqbal, Pouneh Nikkhah Bahrami, Rahmadi Trimananda, Hao Cui, Alexander Gamero-Garrido, Daniel Dubois, @proffnes, Athina Markopoulou, Franziska Roesner, @zubair_shafiq. IMC '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference. #pets24
We are delighted to announce that the 2024 winner of The Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies is The Discrete Gaussian for Differential Privacy, by @ccanonne, @gautamkamath, @steinke. Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality, 12(1), 2022. #pets24
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Today I'm going to present our latest publication "Please Unstalk Me" at PETS. A paper about the ongoing stalking attacks with Bluetooth trackers like Apple AirTags, Tile and Samsung SmartTags.
Registration for PETS + workshops, both in person and online, is back up. Use Items 6 and 7 on the provider's page.
Before you do, please see the important notes on our registration page: https://petsymposium.org/2024/registration.php
tl;dr: Some social events are at capacity and so not included, and the rate is discounted. The in-person description on the provider's page is not accurate.
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