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Hoàng Nguyên Phong

PhD Candidate

Stony Brook University

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Thank you for visiting my site. I am a PhD candidate at the Department of Computer Science, The State University of New York at Stony Brook under the supervision of Professor Michalis Polychronakis. Currently, I am also working as a visiting research fellow at the Citizen Lab, University of Toronto, with a focus on Internet censorship measurement.

My research interests encompass security and privacy with an emphasis on online privacy, anonymity, and Internet censorship. In particular, I am interested in conducting network measurements to gain insight into anonymous networks (e.g., Tor, I2P) and privacy-enhancing technologies (e.g., proxy, VPN, DNS over HTTPS/TLS, and ESNI).

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"K-resolver" presented at NDSS MADWeb 2020

We are happy to have our paper entitled “K-resolver: Towards Decentralizing Encrypted DNS Resolution” accepted at NDSS …
Last updated on Feb 23, 2020 3 min read

An Empirical Study of the I2P Anonymity Network and its Censorship Resistance

In this blog post, we summarize the outcomes of our project entitled “An Empirical Study of the I2P Anonymity Network and its …
Sep 30, 2019 9 min read

Cloud-based Censorship Resistant I2P Reseeding

From early March until April, 2019, we conducted measurements from 1.7K network locations located in 164 countries to examine the …
Sep 29, 2019 4 min read

Guidelines to set up an I2P reseed server over Cloudflare

Based on the original definition from I2P homapage, a reseed server consists of a Java I2P router, an HTTPS web server, and some …
Sep 13, 2019 13 min read

ICLab paper got accepted to The 41st IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Our paper titled: ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform recently got accepted to the IEEE Security and …
Sep 1, 2019 2 min read
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Publications

Assessing the Privacy Benefits of Domain Name Encryption

As Internet users have become more savvy about the potential for their Internet communication to be observed, the use of network …
PDF Dataset ACM DL

ICLab: A Global, Longitudinal Internet Censorship Measurement Platform

Researchers have studied Internet censorship for nearly as long as attempts to censor contents have taken place. Most studies have …
Code Video Data (on Internet Archive) Data (on Google Drive) Preprint

The Web is Still Small After More Than a Decade

Understanding web co-location is essential for various reasons. For instance, it can help one to assess the collateral damage that …
PDF ACM DL Dataset Preprint

K-resolver: Towards Decentralizing Encrypted DNS Resolution

Centralized DNS over HTTPS/TLS (DoH/DoT) resolution , which has started being deployed by major hosting providers and web browsers, has …
PDF Dataset Slides DOI NDSS DL

Measuring I2P Censorship at a Global Scale

The prevalence of Internet censorship has prompted the creation of several measurement platforms for monitoring filtering activities. …
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Media Coverage

How Gay Dating Apps Are Being Abused & Used For Entrapment Around The World?

Grindr has been used by gay, bi, and transgender men for over ten years in nearly 200 countries. Gay communities in countries where …
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同性恋交友应用真的安全吗？研究人员的发现让人有些失望

几天前，我提醒我的妻子我所做的实验完全与性无关，免得她偷瞄我的手机。之后我安装了同性恋交友应用Grindr。我把头像设为一只猫，并且关掉了应用上的“显示距离”选项，这样做能隐藏我的位置。一分钟之后，我打电话给Nguyen Phong Hoang（日本京都的一名安全研究人 …
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Renewed Concerns about Privacy on Grindr, Hornet, and Similar Gay Hookup Apps

After claims that Egyptian police used gay hook-up apps to track down gay people and arrest them in 2014 (penalty for same-sex sexual …
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Is Your Location Really Private on Grindr? Not Quite...

If someone is truly determined, they can pinpoint where you are by comparing your proximity to fake accounts. Researchers at …
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Same-Sex Dating App Gives Away Your Exact Location, Even When You Tell It Not To

Three researchers from the Kyoto University in Japan have discovered that three of the most popular same-sex dating apps today are …
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Gay Dating Apps Promise Privacy, But Leak Your Exact Location

A FEW DAYS ago, I warned my wife that the experiment I was about to engage in was entirely non-sexual, lest she glance over my shoulder …
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