Publications

[10] CalcuLatency: Leveraging Cross-Layer Network Latency Measurements to Detect Proxy-Enabled Abuse

Reethika Ramesh, P. Winter, S. Korman, and R. Ensafi
In: USENIX Security 2024

[9] Bridging Barriers: A Survey of Challenges and Priorities in the Censorship Circumvention Landscape

D. Xue, A. Ablove, Reethika Ramesh, G. Danciu, R. Ensafi
In: USENIX Security 2024

[8] Digital Discrimination of Users in Sanctioned States: The Case of the Cuba Embargo

A. Ablove, S. Chandrashekaran, H. Le, R. Raman, Reethika Ramesh, H. Oppenheimer, R. Ensafi
In: USENIX Security 2024
🏆 Distinguished paper award

[7] Network Responses to Russia's Invasion of Ukraine in 2022:
A Cautionary Tale for Internet Freedom

Reethika Ramesh*, R. Sundara Raman*, A. Virkud, A. Dirksen, A. Huremagic, D. Fifield, D. Rodenburg, R. Hynes, D. Madory, and R. Ensafi
In: USENIX Security 2023
🏆 Won Best Practical Award 🏆 at FOCI'24

[6] "All of them claim to be the best": Multi-perspective study
of VPN users and VPN providers

Reethika Ramesh, A. Vyas, and R. Ensafi
In: USENIX Security 2023

[5] OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting

D. Xue, Reethika Ramesh, A. Jain, M. Kallitsis, J. Halderman, J. Crandall, and R. Ensafi
In: USENIX Security 2022
🏆 Distinguished paper award
🏆 Won First Prize 🏆 in the 2022 Internet Defense Prize

[4] VPNalyzer: Systematic Investigation of the VPN Ecosystem

Reethika Ramesh, L. Evdokimov, D. Xue, and R. Ensafi
In: NDSS 2022
🏆 Won First Place at the CSAW '22 Applied Research Competition.

[3] Throttling Twitter: An Emerging Censorship Technique in Russia

D. Xue, Reethika Ramesh, ValdikSS, L. Evdokimov, A. Viktorov, A. Jain, E. Wustrow, S. Basso, and R. Ensafi
In: ACM IMC 2021
Recognized as the Highest Scoring Short Paper at IMC'21

[2] Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia

Reethika Ramesh, R. Sundara Raman, M. Bernhard, V. Ongkowijaya, L. Evdokimov, A. Edmundson, S. Sprecher, M. Ikram, and R. Ensafi
In: NDSS 2020
🏆 Top 10 and Finalist at the CSAW '20 Applied Research Competition.

[1] Measuring the Deployment of Network Censorship Filters at Global Scale

R. Sundara Raman, A. Stoll, J. Dalek, Reethika Ramesh, W. Scott, R.Ensafi
In: NDSS 2020

Workshop Publications and Talks

Investigating the VPN Recommendation Ecosystem

Reethika Ramesh, A. Huremagic, C. Sharp, R. Ensafi
In: The 6th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro '22)

Building the VPNalyzer System

Reethika Ramesh
Talk given at: Workshop on Learning from Authoritative Security Experiment Results (LASER) 2022, Colocated with NDSS'22