2025

Issue 1

• Is Custom Congestion Control a Bad Idea for Circumvention Tools? [PDF]
  Wayne Wang (University of Michigan), Diwen Xue (University of Michigan), Piyush Kumar (University of Michigan), Ayush Mishra (ETH Zürich), Anonymous, Roya Ensafi (University of Michigan)
• I(ra)nconsistencies: Novel Insights into Iran’s Censorship [PDF]
  Felix Lange (Paderborn University), Niklas Niere (Paderborn University), Jonathan von Niessen (Paderborn University), Dennis Suermann (Paderborn University), Nico Heitmann (Paderborn University), Juraj Somorovsky (Paderborn University)
• Extended Abstract: Using TURN Servers for Censorship Evasion [PDF]
  Afonso Vilalonga (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa & NOVA LINCS), Kevin Gallagher (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa & NOVA LINCS), Osman Yaǧan (Carnegie Mellon University), João S. Resende (Universidade do Porto), Henrique Domingos (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa & NOVA LINCS)
• Revisiting BAT Browsers: Protecting At-Risk Populations from Surveillance, Censorship, and Targeted Attacks [PDF]
  Esther Rodriguez (Arizona State University), Lobsang Gyatso (Tibet Action Institute), Tenzin Thayai (Tibet Action Institute), Jedidiah R. Crandall (Arizona State University)
• Examining Leading Pakistani Mobile Apps [PDF]
  Sana Habib (Arizona State University), Mohammad Taha Khan (Washington and Lee University), Jedidiah R. Crandall (Arizona State University)

Issue 2

• Fingerprint-resistant DTLS for usage in Snowflake [PDF]
  Theodor Signebøen Midtlien, David Palma (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
• 1-800-Censorship: Analyzing internet censorship data using the Internet Yellow Pages [PDF]
  Friedemann Lipphardt (Max Planck Institute for Informatics), Malte Tashiro (IIJ Research Laboratory / SOKENDAI), Romain Fontugne (IIJ Research Laboratory)
• Hidden Links: Analyzing Secret Families of VPN Apps [PDF]
  Benjamin Mixon-Baca (ASU / Breakpointing Bad), Jeffrey Knockel (Citizen Lab / Bowdoin College), Jedidiah R. Crandall (Arizona State University)
• Evaluating Onion Address Collection Methods [PDF]
  Tobias Höller (Johannes Kepler University), René Mayrhofer (Johannes Kepler University)
• Extended Abstract: Shaperd: Easily Adoptable Real-Time Traffic Shaper for Fully Encrypted Protocols [PDF]
  Sarah Wilson (University of Waterloo), Stella Tian (University of Waterloo), Sina Kamali (University of Waterloo)
• Extended Abstract: Traffic Shaping for Network Protocols: A Modular and Developer-Friendly Framework [PDF]
  Hugo Santos Pereira (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa & NOVA LINCS), Afonso Vilalonga (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa & NOVA LINCS), Kevin Gallagher (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa & NOVA LINCS), Henrique Domingos (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa & NOVA LINCS)
• Extended Abstract: Nobody’s Fault but Mine: Using Unauthenticated Unidirectional Pushes for Client Update [PDF]
  Paul Vines (Two Six Technologies)
• Position Paper: A Case for Machine-Checked Verification of Circumvention Systems [PDF]
  Vitor Pereira (Algoritmo Sapiente, LDA), Ahmed Irfan (SRI), Vinod Yegneswaran (SRI), Nick Feamster (University of Chicago), Prateek Mittal (Princeton University), Vitaly Shmatikov (Cornell Tech)
• An Improved BGP Internet Graph for Optimizing Refraction Proxy Placement [PDF]
  Harshith Umesh (Red Hat), Alden W. Jackson (Northeastern University)
• Extended Abstract: I’ll Shake Your Hand: What Happens After DNS Poisoning [PDF]
  Jade Sheffey (UMass Amherst), Ali Zohaib (UMass Amherst), Dayeon Kang (UMass Amherst), Dayeon Kang (Stanford University), Amir Houmansadr (UMass Amherst), Qiang Wu (GFW Report)
• Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) in Censorship Circumvention [PDF]
  Niklas Niere (Paderborn University), Felix Lange (Paderborn University), Nico Heitmann (Paderborn University), Juraj Somorovsky (Paderborn University)
• Probing the third-party infrastructure of digital news on the Web [PDF]
  Ido Sivan-Sevilla (The University of Maryland), Parthav Poudel (The University of Maryland)