David Fifield
david@bamsoftware.com
https://www.bamsoftware.com/
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Publications
“Evading censorship with browser-based proxies.”
David Fifield, Nate Hardison, Jonathan Ellithorpe, Emily Stark, Dan Boneh,
Roger Dingledine, and Phil Porras.
Proceedings of PETS 2012.
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“OSS: Using Online Scanning Services for Censorship Circumvention.”
David Fifield, Gabi Nakibly, and Dan Boneh.
Proceedings of PETS 2013.
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“Blocking-resistant communication through domain fronting.”
David Fifield, Chang Lan, Rod Hynes, Percy Wegmann, and Vern Paxson.
Proceedings of PETS 2015.
Winner of the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award.
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“Remote Operating System Classification over IPv6.”
David Fifield, Alexandru Geana, Luis MartinGarcia,
Mathias Morbitzer, J. D. Tygar (alphabetical authorship).
Proceedings of AISec 2015.
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“Examining How the Great Firewall Discovers Hidden Circumvention Servers.”
Roya Ensafi, David Fifield, Philipp Winter,
Nick Feamster, Nicholas Weaver, and Vern Paxson.
Proceedings of IMC 2015.
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“Do You See What I See? Differential Treatment of Anonymous Users.”
Sheharbano Khattak, David Fifield, Sadia Afroz, Mobin Javed, Srikanth Sundaresan, Vern Paxson, Steven J. Murdoch, and Damon McCoy.
Proceedings of NDSS 2016.
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“Censors’ Delay in Blocking Circumvention Proxies.”
David Fifield and Lynn Tsai (alphabetical authorship).
Proceedings of FOCI 2016.
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“A Usability Evaluation of Tor Launcher.”
Linda Lee, David Fifield, Nathan Malkin, Ganesh Iyer, Serge Egelman, and David Wagner.
Proceedings of PETS 2017.
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“A better zip bomb.”
David Fifield.
Winner of the Best Paper award.
Proceedings of WOOT 2019.
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“Turbo Tunnel, a good way to design censorship circumvention protocols.”
David Fifield.
Proceedings of FOCI 2020.
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“Unsupervised authorship attribution.”
David Fifield, Torbjørn Follan, Emil Lunde.
March 26, 2015.
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“SNI proxies.”
David Fifield, Jiang Jian, and Paul Pearce.
December 19, 2016.
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“How China Detects and Blocks Shadowsocks.”
Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, David Fifield, and Amir Houmansadr.
December 19, 2019.
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“Exposing and Circumventing China's Censorship of ESNI.”
Kevin Bock, iyouport, Anonymous, Louis-Henri Merino, David Fifield, Amir Houmansadr, and Dave Levin.
August 7, 2020.
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Master of Science in theoretical computer science.
Stanford University. April 2013.
Bachelor of Science in computer science and mathematics.
Metropolitan State College of Denver. December 2007.
Projects
Nmap. 2007–2014. Co-maintainer and a primary developer of the security
scanning program. Developer and inventor of various network scanning
enhancements. Manager of interns over five instances of Google Summer of
Code.
The Tor Project. Since 2011. Creator of the
flash proxy and
meek censorship
circumvention systems, developer for
Snowflake.
Maintainer of
goptlib,
a library for implementing pluggable transports.
SEDES,
metrical position in Greek hexameter.
Since .
Service
2017–:
Managing the net4people/bbs
forum for discussion of censorship circmvention.