Revocable anonymous access to the Internet?

Internet Research

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 242-258

  Claessens, Joris ^a   Díaz, Claudia ^a   Goemans, Caroline ^a   Preneel, Bart ^a   Vandewalle, Joos ^a   Dumortier, Jos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Communication; Discrete control systems; Internet; Privacy; Trade secrets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141816572     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662240310488933     Document Type: Article

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