Publications

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• Rahel A. Fainchtein, Adam A. Aviv, Micah Sherr, Stephen Ribaudo, and Armaan Khullar. Holes in the Geofence: Privacy Vulnerabilities in “Smart” DNS Services. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS), July 2021. Accepted with shepherding condition.

• Zhao Zhang, Wenchao Zhou, and Micah Sherr. Bypassing Tor Exit Blocking with Exit Bridge Onion Services. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2020.

• Zhao Zhang, Tavish Vaidya, Kartik Subramanian, Wenchao Zhou, and Micah Sherr. Ephemeral Exit Bridges for Tor. In IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2020.

• Tavish Vaidya, Tim Walsh, and Micah Sherr. Whisper: A Unilateral Defense Against VoIP Traffic Re-Identification Attacks. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2019.

• Rob Jansen, Tavish Vaidya, and Micah Sherr. Point Break: A Study of Bandwidth Denial-of-Service Attacks against Tor. In USENIX Security Symposium (Security), August 2019.

• Tavish Vaidya, Daniel J. Votipka, Michelle Mazurek, and Micah Sherr. Does Being Verified Make You More Credible? The Effect of Account Verification on Tweet Credibility. In ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), May 2019.

• Rob Jansen, Matthew Traudt, John Geddes, Chris Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. KIST: Kernel-Informed Socket Transport for Tor. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS). Volume 22 Issue 1, December 2018.

• Henri Maxime Demoulin*, Tavish Vaidya*, Isaac Pedisich, Bob DiMaiolo, Jingyu Qian, Chirag Shah, Yuankai Zhang, Ang Chen, Andreas Haeberlen, Boon Thau Loo, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, and Wenchao Zhou. DeDoS: Defusing DoS with Dispersion Oriented Software. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2018. (* co-first authors).

• Akshaya Mani*, Tavish Vaidya*, David Dworken, and Micah Sherr. An Extensive Evaluation of the Internet’s Open Proxies. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2018. (* co-first authors).

• Akshaya Mani*, T Wilson Brown*, Rob Jansen, Aaron Johnson, and Micah Sherr. Understanding Tor Usage with Privacy-Preserving Measurement. In ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), October 2018. (* co-first authors)

• Ellis Fenske*, Akshaya Mani*, Aaron Johnson, and Micah Sherr. Distributed Measurement with Private Set-Union Cardinality. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2017. (* co-first authors)

• Yuankai Zhang, Adam O’Neill, Micah Sherr, and Wenchao Zhou. Privacy-preserving Network Provenance. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB), 10, August 2017.

• Henri Maxime Demoulin*, Tavish Vaidya*, Isaac Pedisich, Nik Sultana, Yuankai Zhang, Ang Chen, Andreas Haeberlen, Boon Thau Loo, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, and Wenchao Zhou. A Demonstration of the DeDoS Platform for Defusing Asymmetric DDoS Attacks in Data Centers (Demo). In Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications (SIGCOMM), August 2017. (* co-first authors)

• Tavish Vaidya, Eric Burger, Micah Sherr, and Clay Shields. Where art thou, Eve? Experiences Laying Traps for Internet Eavesdroppers. In USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), August 2017.

• Akshaya Mani and Micah Sherr. Historε: Differentially Private and Robust Statistics Collection for Tor. In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2017.

• Ang Chen, Akshay Sriraman, Tavish Vaidya, Yuankai Zhang, Andreas Haeberlen, Boon Thau Loo, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, and Wenchao Zhou. Dispersing Asymmetric DDoS Attacks with SplitStack. In ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), November 2016.

• Brendan Sheridan and Micah Sherr. On Manufacturing Resilient Opaque Constructs Against Static Analysis. In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), September 2016.

• Nicholas Carlini, Pratyush Mishra, Tavish Vaidya, Yuankai Zhang, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, David Wagner, and Wenchao Zhou. Hidden Voice Commands. In USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), August 2016.

• Henry Tan, Micah Sherr, and Wenchao Zhou. Data-plane Defenses against Routing Attacks on Tor. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PoPETS), July 2016.

• Dong Lin, Micah Sherr, and Boon Thau Loo. Scalable and Anonymous Group Communication with MTor. Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PoPETS), July 2016.

• Tavish Vaidya, Yuankai Zhang, Micah Sherr, and Clay Shields. Cocaine Noodles: Exploiting the Gap between Human and Machine Speech Recognition. In USENIX Workshop on Offensive Technologies (WOOT), August 2015.

• Lisa Singh, Grace Hui Yang, Micah Sherr, Andrew Hian-Cheong, Kevin Tian, Janet Zhu, and Sicong Zhang. Public Information Exposure Detection: Helping Users Understand Their Web Footprints. In IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), August 2015.

• Tavish Vaidya and Micah Sherr. Mind your (R, Φ)s: Location-Based Privacy Controls for Consumer Drones. In Security Protocols Workshop, March 2015.

• Mingchen Zhao, Wenchao Zhou, Alexander Gurney, Andreas Haeberlen, Micah Sherr, and Boon Thau Loo. Private and Verifiable Interdomain Routing Decisions. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2015.

• W. Brad Moore, Henry Tan, Micah Sherr, and Marcus A. Maloof. Multi-Class Traffic Morphing for Encrypted VoIP Communication. In Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC), January 2015.

• Adam Bates, Kevin Butler, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, Patrick Traynor, and Dan Wallach. Accountable Wiretapping -or- I Know They Can Hear You Now. Journal of Computer Security, 23:167-195, 2015.

• Henry Tan, Chris Wacek, Calvin Newport, and Micah Sherr. A Disruption-Resistant MAC Layer for Multichannel Wireless Networks. In International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS), December 2014.

• Ang Chen, W. Brad Moore, Hanjun Xiao, Andreas Haeberlen, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Micah Sherr, and Wenchao Zhou. Detecting Covert Timing Channels with Time-Deterministic Replay. In USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), October 2014.

• Rob Jansen, John Geddes, Chris Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. Never Been KIST: Tor’s Congestion Management Blossoms with Kernel-Informed Socket Transport. In USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX), August 2014.

• Adam Aviv, Micah Sherr, Matt Blaze, and Jonathan Smith. Privacy-aware message exchanges for humanets. Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications, 48:30-43, July 2014.

• Jeremy Fineman, Calvin Newport, Micah Sherr, and Tonghe Wang. Fair Maximal Independent Sets. In IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), May 2014.

• Henry Tan and Micah Sherr. Censorship Resistance as a Side-Effect. In International Workshop on Security Protocols, March 2014.

• Adam Bates, Kevin Butler, Andreas Haeberlen, Micah Sherr, and Wenchao Zhou. Let SDN Be Your Eyes: Secure Forensics in Data Center Networks. In Workshop on Security of Emerging Networking Technologies (SENT), February 2014.

• Micah Sherr, Harjot Gill, Taher Aquil Saeed, Andrew Mao, William R. Marczak, Saravana Soundararajan, Wenchao Zhou, Boon Thau Loo, and Matt Blaze. The Design and Implementation of the A3 Application-Aware Anonymity Platform. Elsevier Computer Networks, 58:206-227, February 2014.

• Jordan Wilberding, Andrew Yates, Micah Sherr, and Wenchao Zhou. Validating Web Content with Senser. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2013.

• Aaron Johnson, Chris Wacek, Rob Jansen, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. Users Get Routed: Traffic Correlation on Tor by Realistic Adversaries. In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), November 2013.

• W. Brad Moore, Yifang Wei, Adam Orshefsky, Micah Sherr, Lisa Singh, and Hui Yang. Understanding Site-Based Inference Potential for Identifying Hidden Attributes. In ASE/IEEE International Conference on Information Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust (PASSAT), September 2013. Short paper.

• Wenchao Zhou, Suyog Mapara, Yiqing Ren, Yang Li, Andreas Haeberlen, Zachary Ives, Boon Thau Loo, and Micah Sherr. Distributed Time-aware Provenance. In International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), August 2013.

• John Ferro, Lisa Singh, and Micah Sherr. Identifying Individual Vulnerability Based on Public Data. In International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), July 2013.

• Chris Wacek, Henry Tan, Kevin Bauer, and Micah Sherr. An Empirical Evaluation of Relay Selection in Tor. In Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2013.

• Adam J. Aviv, Micah Sherr, Matt Blaze, and Jonathan M. Smith. Privacy-Aware Message Exchanges for Geographically Routed Human Movement Networks. In European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), September 2012.

• Sandy Clark, Chris Wacek, Matt Blaze, Boon Thau Loo, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, and Jonathan Smith. Collaborative Red Teaming for Anonymity System Evaluation. In USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), August 2012.

• Mingchen Zhao, Wenchao Zhou, Alexander Gurney, Andreas Haeberlen, Micah Sherr, and Boon Thau Loo. Private and Verifiable Interdomain Routing Decisions. In Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications (SIGCOMM), August 2012.

• Henry Tan, Nazli Goharian, and Micah Sherr. $100,000 Prize Jackpot. Call Now! Identifying the Pertinent Features of SMS Spam (Poster). In ACM Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), August 2012.

• Adam Bates, Kevin Butler, Micah Sherr, Clay Shields, Patrick Traynor, and Dan Wallach. Accountable Wiretapping -or- I Know They Can Hear You Now. In Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), February 2012.

• Brad Moore, Chris Wacek, and Micah Sherr. Exploring the Potential Benefits of Expanded Rate Limiting in Tor: Slow and Steady Wins the Race With Tortoise. In Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), December 2011.

• Alexander J.T. Gurney, Andreas Haeberlen, Wenchao Zhou, Micah Sherr, and Boon Thau Loo. Having your Cake and Eating it too: Routing Security with Privacy Protections. In ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets), November 2011.

• Wenchao Zhou, Qiong Fei, Arjun Narayan, Andreas Haeberlen, Boon Thau Loo, and Micah Sherr. Secure Network Provenance. In ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), October 2011.

• Kevin Bauer, Micah Sherr, Damon McCoy, and Dirk Grunwald. ExperimenTor: A Testbed for Safe and Realistic Tor Experimentation. In USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), August 2011.