Welcome to the Anonymous Communication (Aqua/Herd/Moby) research project page!

Publications

• Moby: A Blackout-resistant Anonymity Network for Mobile Devices
  Amogh Pradeep, Hira Javaid, Ryan Williams, Antoine Rault, David Choffnes, Stevens Le Blond, Bryan Ford
  To appear in PETS 2022
  
  
• PASSPORT: Enabling Accurate Country-Level Router Geolocation using Inaccurate Sources
  Muzammil Abdul Rehman, Sharon Goldberg, David Choffnes
  arXiv 2019
  
  
• Herd: A scalable, traffic analysis resistant anonymity network for VoIP systems
  Stevens Le Blond, David Choffnes, William Caldwell, Peter Druschel, Nick Merritt
  ACM SIGCOMM 2015
  
  
• Towards efficient traffic-analysis resistant anonymity networks
  Stevens Le Blond, David Choffnes, Wenxuan Zhou, Peter Druschel, Hitesh Ballani, Paul Francis
  ACM SIGCOMM 2013
  [ MIT Tech Review ]

Source code

Moby

We have released Moby simulation code and implementation code.

Passport

We have made the Passport service available at this webpage. You can also find the source code here.

Herd

Herd's source code for Linux.

We rebuilt some foundational structures for anonymous networks in Rust and Go. The git repository is here, please contact David Choffnes if you would like access to it.

Media coverage

• 10/13/2015: MIT Technology Review: Anonymity Network Tor Needs a Tune-up to Protect Users from Surveillance

Members

Current

• David Choffnes, Northeastern University (PI)
• Amogh Pradeep, Northeastern
• Daniel Dubios, Northeastern

Former

• Talha Paracha (Northeastern)
• Ryan Williams (Northeastern)
• Hira Javaid (Northeastern)
• Muzammil Abdul Rehman (Northeastern)
• Stevens Le Blond, EPFL
• Brian Ford, EPFL
• Tariq Sachleben, Northeastern Univeristy
• William Caldwell, MPI-SWS
• Peter Druschel, MPI-SWS
• Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft Research Cambridge
• Paul Francis, MPI-SWS
• Nicholas Merritt, MPI-SWS
• Wenxuan Zhou, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign