Real-time mixes: A bandwidth-efficient anonymity protocol

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 495-508

  Jerichow, Anja ^a   Müller, Jan ^a   Pfitzmann, Andreas ^a   Pfitzmann, Birgit ^b   Waidner, Michael ^c  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c IBM RESEARCH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anonymity; ISDN; Privacy; Public key cryptography; Real time communication; Security

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); CRYPTOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MAIL; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

BANDWIDTH EFFICIENT ANONYMITY PROTOCOLS;

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 0032074980     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.668973     Document Type: Article

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