Aims

This course will focus on the modeling, design and analysis of private communication networks. In particular, the course will cover:

• Design elements: system architectures, network topologies, routing algorithms, mixing and cover traffic strategies.
• Communication privacy properties: unlinkability, anonymity, unobservability, undetectability. 
• Types of systems: decryption mix networks, re-encryption mix networks, onion routing networks, peer-to-peer networks. 
• Security analysis: review of vulnerabilities and known attacks on existing designs, explanation of attack principles and privacy evaluation methods
• Tradeoffs between privacy, latency, overhead, scalability, decentralization
• Open challenges for large-scale deployment

Previous knowledge

Students should have taken the course Privacy Technologies (B-KUL-H09L2A)

Order of Enrolment

Mixed prerequisite:
You may only take this course if you comply with the prerequisites. Prerequisites can be strict or flexible, or can imply simultaneity. A degree level can be also be a prerequisite.
Explanation:
STRICT: You may only take this course if you have passed or applied tolerance for the courses for which this condition is set.
FLEXIBLE: You may only take this course if you have previously taken the courses for which this condition is set.
SIMULTANEOUS: You may only take this course if you also take the courses for which this condition is set (or have taken them previously).
DEGREE: You may only take this course if you have obtained this degree level.


FLEXIBLE( H09L2A )

The codes of the course units mentioned above correspond to the following course descriptions:
H09L2A : Privacy Technologies

Is included in these courses of study

• Master of Cybersecurity (Leuven) 60 ects.