Defending anonymous communications against passive logging attacks

Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Symposium on Research in Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 28-41

  Wright, Matthew ^a   Adler, Micah ^a   Levine, Brian N ^a   Shields, Clay ^b  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; TELECOMMUNICATION TRAFFIC; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; USER INTERFACES; WEBSITES;

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATIONS; PASSIVE LOGGING ATTACKS; PEER TO PEER SYSTEMS; WEB TRAFFIC;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 0038148416     PISSN: 10637109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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