20260828 - Nik Sultana (Illinois Tech) - "Disclosure Control for Network Measurements"

20260828 - Nik Sultana (Illinois Tech) - "Disclosure Control for Network Measurements" Authors: Nik Sultana - Illinois Tech Date: August 28th, 2026 Title: Disclosure Control for Network Measurements Abstract: How do we ensure that network measurements don't disclose information that shouldn't be disclosed? Today's approaches for this problem rely on best effort and, ultimately, trust that network data won't be misused. This talk explores a different technical approach that involves sound, machine-checked guarantees around non-disclosure. The talk presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a general—yet disclosure-controlled—approach to carry out flexible measurements over packet streams (and their contents). The talk also reports on an early deployment experience of this approach.