Welcome to DD2496 Privacy-Enhancing Technologies!

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Deadlines

in addition to the assigned reading every week, there are one-off tasks with deadlines varying by presentation seminar (PS<instance>, the prefix of your group name.)

TASK	DAY	PS1	PS2	PS3	PS4
paper selection	Monday	Sep 09	Sep 16	Sep 23	Sep 30
quiz questions, discussion setup	Monday	Sep 16	Sep 23	Sep 30	Oct 07
slides	Thursday	Sep 19	Sep 19	Oct 03	Oct 03
presentation	Thursday	Sep 19	Sep 26	Oct 03	Oct 10
report draft	Thursday	Oct 03	Oct 03	Sep 19	Sep 19
peer review	Monday	Sep 23	Sep 23	Oct 07	Oct 07
revised report	Thursday	Oct 17	Oct 17	Oct 17	Oct 17

Setup

The course consists of some lectures and several seminars. At each seminar, some participants, in groups, present a topic relevant to privacy-enhancing technologies, followed by a discussion. The presentation is complemented by a written report. Before each presentation or lecture, there will be a short quiz on the related reading.

Intended learning outcomes

After completion of the course, the student should be able to:

identify threats against privacy in an IT system,
explain and use basic terminology in the area correctly,
find and use documentation of privacy-related problems and technologies,
demonstrate an overview of privacy enhancing technologies (PET),
analyse descriptions of PET systems with regard to their protection of privacy and function,
identify vulnerabilities from PET system descriptions, predict their equivalent threat, and choose countermeasures against identified threats and show their efficiency,
compare countermeasures and evaluate their side effects,
present and explain their reasoning to others,

in order to

as citizen and expert be able to discuss privacy in general and PET in particular,
in professional life and/or research projects be able to use existing privacy enhancing technologies and develop their own.

Topics (Preliminary list, suggestions welcome)

Anonymous routing (Tor) and censorship resistance
Transparency-enhancing technologies (TETs)
Differential privacy
Anonymous credentials
Traffic analysis
PETs and usability
Private information retrieval
Location privacy
Homomorphic encryption
Secure multi-party computation
Bitcoin/blockchain
Privacy by Design
Zero-knowledge proofs
Usage control
Anonymity/de-anonymization
Deniable messaging
Machine learning/AI privacy

Application areas:

IoT privacy
Healthcare privacy
Big data privacy

If you miss a class or fail a quiz, you'll get an assignment that looks like this:

If you missed the class: summarize each topic discussed in the class in 500-700 words per topic based on the slides and submit the summaries in one pdf here. Missing class implies missing quizzes; make sure include the outcome of the task below in the same pdf.

If you missed or failed a quiz: summarize the topic of each failed quiz in 500-700 words per quiz topic and submit it as one pdf here. Use the required reading papers for the topics to write the summary, i.e., summarize both papers taken together in ca. one page.

Passing Criteria for Quizzes: You have to correctly answer at least 2/3 of the provided questions to pass the quiz.

Deadline: The deadline for this assignment is until the next class day (until 11.59pm), and you'll know whether you passed the assignment by the end of Friday.

Missed Deadlines: If you miss the deadline or what you submitted was not enough to pass then you have to summarize each required reading paper for the failed or missed quiz in 500-700 words per paper (not topic, thus doubling the length of your summary) and submit here. For this, the deadline is until the end of the course which is 17.10.19.

Plagiarism Checker: This assignment is checked by URKUND for plagiarism issues. Do not directly copy-paste anything from papers or any other sources.