Breakerspace papers by year

Below is a list of papers, talks, and posters involving at least one Breakerspace undergraduate student. To see a full list involving all of the graduate mentors' papers, go here.

2023

To appear Detecting Network Interference Without Endpoint Participation
Sadia Nourin, Kevin Bock, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Dave Levin
FOCI 2023 (Workshop on Free and Open Communication on the Internet)
To appear Collateral Damage of Russian Censorship
Aaron Ortwein, Kevin Bock, Dave Levin
FOCI 2023 (Workshop on Free and Open Communication on the Internet)
To appear Crowdsourcing the Discovery of Server-side Censorship Evasion Strategies
Nhi Tran, Kevin Bock, Dave Levin
FOCI 2023 (Workshop on Free and Open Communication on the Internet)
  pdf    www  Measuring and Evading Turkmenistan's Internet Censorship
Sadia Nourin, Van Tran, Xi Jiang, Kevin Bock, Nick Feamster, Nguyen Phong Hoang, Dave Levin
WWW 2023 (The Web Conference)

2022

  pdf    www  Hammurabi: A Framework for Pluggable, Logic-based X.509 Certificate Validation Policies
James Larisch, Waqar Aqeel, Michael Lum, Yaelle Goldschlag, Kasra Torshizi, Leah Kannan, Yujie Wang, Taejoong Chung, Dave Levin, Bruce M. Maggs, Alan Mislove, Bryan Parno, Christo Wilson
ACM CCS 2022
Best paper honorable mention
  pdf    www  GET /out: Automated Discovery of Application-Layer Censorship Evasion Strategies
Michael Harrity, Kevin Bock, Frederick Sell, Dave Levin
USENIX Security 2022

2021

  pdf    www  Even Censors Have a Backup: Examining the GFW’s Double HTTPS Censorship System
Kevin Bock, Gabriel Naval, Kyle Reese, Dave Levin
FOCI 2021 (ACM Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet)
  pdf    www  Bento: Safely Bringing Network Function Virtualization to Tor
Michael Reininger, Arushi Arora, Stephen Herwig, Nicholas Francino, Christina Garman, Dave Levin
ACM SIGCOMM 2021
  pdf    www  Your Censor is My Censor: Weaponizing Censorship Infrastructure for Availability Attacks
Kevin Bock, Pranav Bharadwaj, Jasraj Singh, Dave Levin
WOOT 2021 (IEEE Workshop on Offensive Technologies)
  pdf    www  Weaponizing Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Amplification
Kevin Bock, Abdulrahman Alaraj, Yair Fax, Kyle Hurley, Eric Wustrow, Dave Levin
USENIX Security 2021
Distinguished paper award Internet Defense Prize

2020

  pdf    www  Mental Models of Domain Names and URLs
Richard Roberts, Daniela Lulli, Abolee Raut, Kelsey Fulton, Dave Levin
Poster at SOUPS 2020 (Symposium On Usable Privacy and Security)
  pdf    www  Detecting and Evading Censorship-in-Depth: A Case Study of Iran's Protocol Whitelister
Kevin Bock, Yair Fax, Kyle Reese, Jasraj Singh, Dave Levin
FOCI 2020 (USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet)
  pdf    www  Come as You Are: Helping Unmodified Clients Bypass Censorship with Server-side Evasion
Kevin Bock, George Hughey, Louis-Henri Merino, Tania Arya, Daniel Liscinsky, Regina Pogosian, Dave Levin
ACM SIGCOMM 2020
Applied Networking Research Prize 2021
  pdf    www  .how .you .spot .whoswho .online .sucks: Deceiving Users with Generic Top-Level Domains
Richard Roberts, Rachel Walter, Daniela Lulli, Dave Levin
ConPro 2020 (Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection) Accepted Talk
 www  Geneva: An AI Approach to Evading Nation-State Censorship
Kevin Bock, George Hughey
BlueHat IL 2020

2019

  pdf    www  Geneva: Evolving Censorship Evasion Strategies
Kevin Bock, George Hughey, Xiao Qiang, Dave Levin
ACM CCS 2019 (Conference on Computer and Communications Security)
  pdf    www  You Are Who You Appear to Be: A Longitudinal Study of Domain Impersonation in TLS Certificates
Richard Roberts, Yaelle Goldschlag, Rachel Walter, Taejoong Chung, Alan Mislove, Dave Levin
ACM CCS 2019 (Conference on Computer and Communications Security)
Learning Nation-State Censorship with Genetic Algorithms
Kevin Bock, George Hughey
AIMS 2019 (Workshop on Active Internet Measurements)
  pdf    www  Measurement and Analysis of Hajime, a Peer-to-peer IoT Botnet
Stephen Herwig, Katura Harvey, George Hughey, Richard Roberts, Dave Levin
NDSS 2019 (Network and Distributed System Security Symposium)

2018

 www  Target-Embedding Domain Impersonation in HTTPS Certificates
Richard Roberts, Yaelle Goldschlag, Dave Levin
Poster at ACM IMC 2018 (Internet Measurement Conference)
  poster    www  Measurement and Analysis of Hajime, a Peer-to-peer IoT Botnet
Stephen Herwig, Katura Harvey, George Hughey, Richard Roberts, Dave Levin
Poster at ACM IMC 2018 (Internet Measurement Conference)
 www  Detecting IoT Malware with Power Measurements
Rebecca Gelles, Kelsey Fulton, Rachel Walter, Dave Levin
Poster at ACM IMC 2018 (Internet Measurement Conference)
 www  Revocation Checking - why is this still so hard?
Kevin Bock
HotSec 2018 (USENIX Summit on Hot Topics in Security)
  pdf    www  King of the Hill: A Novel Cybersecurity Competition for Teaching Penetration Testing
Kevin Bock, George Hughey, Dave Levin
USENIX ASE 2018 (Workshop on Advances in Security Education)