Rob G. Jansen

Rob G. Jansen

Computer Security Research Scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Research interests include: distributed system security, privacy-enhancing technologies, and parallel and distributed simulation

Recent Publications

Point Break: A Study of Bandwidth Denial-of-Service Attacks against Tor
28th USENIX Security Symposium (Sec 2019)
Rob Jansen, Tavish Vaidya, and Micah Sherr
[published article]
Our work influenced the deployment of authenticated SENDMEs  [Tor v0.4.1, 2019-08-20]
  • Degrading Tor network performance only costs a few thousand dollars per month  [ZDNet]
  • Attacking Tor: What it Takes to Disrupt the Popular Onion Routing Network  [SecurityWeek]
KIST: Kernel-Informed Socket Transport for Tor
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS 2018)
Rob Jansen, Matthew Traudt, John Geddes, Chris Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson
Volume 22, Issue 1, Article 3 (January 2018).
[published article]
Our work influenced deployed changes to the queuing system in Tor  [Tor ticket 12541]
Our KIST implementation has been deployed in Tor  [Tor v0.3.2, 2018-01-09]
  • KIST and Tell: Tor’s New Traffic Scheduling Feature  [Tor Project blog]
Understanding Tor Usage with Privacy-Preserving Measurement
18th ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC 2018)
Akshaya Mani, T Wilson-Brown, Rob Jansen, Aaron Johnson, and Micah Sherr
[published article] [extended appendices] [homepage - code, data, and models]
Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Learning of Tor Network Traffic
25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2018)
Rob Jansen, Matthew Traudt, and Nick Hopper
[published article] [homepage - code, data, and models]
Our work has transitioned to the open-source Shadow project since v1.13.0  [code repository]
High Performance Tor Experimentation from the Magic of Dynamic ELFs
11th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET 2018)
Justin Tracey, Rob Jansen, and Ian Goldberg
[published article]
Our work has transitioned to the open-source Shadow project since v1.12.0  [code repository]

Recent Talks

Point Break: A Study of Bandwidth Denial-of-Service Attacks against Tor
28th USENIX Security Symposium (Sec 2019)
Conference technical session, August 16, 2019
[pptx] [pdf] [audio/video]
Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Learning of Tor Network Traffic
DC-area Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Seminar (DCAPS 2018)
Seminar technical session, November 28, 2018
[pptx] [pdf] [program]
Privacy-Preserving Dynamic Learning of Tor Network Traffic
25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communication Security (CCS 2018)
Conference technical session, October 18, 2018
[pptx] [pdf] [program] [video]
Shadow: Scalable and Deterministic Network Experimentation
Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future Community Engagement Event (CEF 2018)
Invited talk, May 15, 2018
[pptx] [pdf] [program]
Inside Job: Applying Traffic Analysis to Measure Tor from Within
DC-area Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Seminar (DCAPS 2018)
Seminar technical session, February 26, 2018
[pptx] [pdf] [program]
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