2025-wrana-sok-surveillance
SoK: The Spectre of Surveillance and Censorship in Future Internet Architectures
Abstract
Recent initiatives known as Future Internet Architectures (FIAs)
seek to redesign the Internet to improve performance, scalability,
and security. However, some governments perceive Internet access as
a threat to their political standing and engage in widespread network
surveillance and censorship. In this paper, the authors provide an
in-depth analysis of the design principles of prominent FIAs in terms
of their packet structure, addressing and naming schemes, and routing
protocols to foster discussion on how these new systems interact with
censorship and surveillance apparatuses. They assess the extent to
which existing surveillance and censorship mechanisms can successfully
target FIA users while discussing privacy enhancing technologies to
counter these mechanisms, and conclude with guidelines for future
research into FIA-based privacy-enhancing technologies.