Reethika Ramesh

Publications

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

@inproceedings{Ramesh2023VPNUserStudy,
author = {Reethika Ramesh and Anjali Vyas and Roya Ensafi},
title = {{"All of them claim to be the best": Multi-perspective study of VPN users and VPN providers}},
booktitle = {32nd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 23)},
year = {2023},
address = {Anaheim, CA},
publisher = {USENIX Association}
}

Reethika Ramesh, A. Vyas, and R. Ensafi
To Appear In: USENIX Security Symposium 2023 (USENIX Security '23)

OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting

@inproceedings{xue2022OpenVPN,
author = {Diwen Xue and Reethika Ramesh and Arham Jain and Michalis Kallitsis and J. Alex Halderman and Jedidiah R. Crandall and Roya Ensafi},
title = {{OpenVPN is Open to VPN Fingerprinting}},
booktitle = {31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22)},
year = {2022},
address = {Boston, MA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity22/presentation/xue-diwen},
publisher = {USENIX Association}
}

D. Xue, Reethika Ramesh, A. Jain, M. Kallitsis, J. Halderman, J. Crandall, and R. Ensafi
In: USENIX Security Symposium 2022 (USENIX Security '22)
🏆 Distinguished paper award
🏆 Won First Prize 🏆 in the 2022 Internet Defense Prize

VPNalyzer: Systematic Investigation of the VPN Ecosystem

@inproceedings{Ramesh2022VPNalyzer,
author = {Reethika Ramesh and Leonid Evdokimov and Diwen Xue and Roya Ensafi},
title = {{VPNalyzer: Systematic Investigation of the VPN Ecosystem}},
booktitle = {Network and Distributed System Security},
publisher = {The Internet Society},
year = {2022},
url = {https://dx.doi.org/10.14722/ndss.2022.24285}
}

Reethika Ramesh, L. Evdokimov, D. Xue, and R. Ensafi
In: Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2022
🏆 Won First Place at the CSAW '22 Applied Research Competition.

Throttling Twitter: An Emerging Censorship Technique in Russia

@inproceedings{Xue2021-throttling,
author = {Xue, Diwen and Ramesh, Reethika and ., ValdikSS and Evdokimov, Leonid and Viktorov, Andrey and Jain, Arham and Wustrow, Eric and Basso, Simone and Ensafi, Roya},
title = {Throttling Twitter: An Emerging Censorship Technique in Russia},
year = {2021},
isbn = {9781450391290},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3487552.3487858},
doi = {10.1145/3487552.3487858},
keywords = {Russia, throttling, interception, censorship},
series = {IMC '21}
}

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

Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia


@inproceedings{Ramesh2020a,
author = {Reethika Ramesh and Ram Sundara Raman and Matthew Bernhard and Victor Ongkowijaya and Leonid Evdokimov and Anne Edmundson and Steven Sprecher and Muhammad Ikram and Roya Ensafi},
title = {{Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia}},
booktitle = {Network and Distributed System Security},
publisher = {The Internet Society},
year = {2020},
url = {https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/23098.pdf},
}

Reethika Ramesh, R. Sundara Raman, M. Bernhard, V. Ongkowijaya, L. Evdokimov, A. Edmundson, S. Sprecher, M. Ikram, and R. Ensafi
In: Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2020, 23-26 February 2020, San Diego, CA, USA
🏆 Top 10 and Finalist at the CSAW '20 Applied Research Competition.

Measuring the Deployment of Network Censorship Filters at Global Scale


@inproceedings{Raman2020a,
	author={Raman, Ram Sundara and Stoll, Adrian and Dalek, Jakub and Ramesh, Reethika and Scott, Will and Ensafi, Roya},
	title = {{Measuring the Deployment of Network Censorship Filters at Global Scale}},
booktitle = {Network and Distributed System Security},
publisher = {The Internet Society},
year = {2020},
url = {https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/23099-paper.pdf},
}

R. Sundara Raman, A. Stoll, J. Dalek, Reethika Ramesh, W. Scott, R.Ensafi
In: Network and Distributed Systems Security (NDSS) Symposium 2020, 23-26 February 2020, San Diego, CA, USA

Workshop Publications and Talks

Investigating the VPN Recommendation Ecosystem


@inproceedings{Ramesh2022ConPro,
author={Ramesh, Reethika and Huremagic, Armin and Sharp, Chad and Ensafi, Roya},
title = {{Investigating the VPN Recommendation Ecosystem}},
booktitle = {6th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro '22)},
year = {2022}
}

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

Awards

Nov 12, 2022: 🏆 Our NDSS'22 VPNalyzer paper won First Place at the CSAW '22 Applied Research Competition
Aug 10, 2022: 🏆 Our USENIX'22 paper won the First Prize in the 2022 Internet Defense Prize competition
Aug 10, 2022: 🏆 Our paper on OpenVPN Fingerprinting won the USENIX'22 Distinguished Paper Award
Oct 24, 2022: ACM IMC 2022 student travel grant
Apr 23, 2021: Selected to participate in the CRA-WP Grad Cohort for Women 2021 organized by the Computing Research Association
Nov 6, 2020: 🏆 My paper Decentralized Control: A Case Study of Russia was selected as a finalist and was among the Top 10 papers for the US-Canada region at the CSAW '20 Applied Research Competition
Aug 12, 2020: USENIX Security '20 student grant
Feb 24, 2020: Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2020 travel grant
Jul 31, 2019: Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2019 travel grant
May 20, 2019: IEEE S&P student travel grant
May 18, 2019: IEEE GREPSEC Workshop travel grant