A quantitative analysis of anonymous communications

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 103-115

  Guan, Yong ^a   Fu, Xinwen ^b   Bettati, Riccardo ^b   Zhao, Wei ^b  

^a Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymous communication; Network security; Rerouting; Sender receiver anonymity

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC MAIL; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PROBABILITY; SECURITY OF DATA; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WEB BROWSERS;

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK SECURITY; REROUTING; WEB PROXY;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 1942500486     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TR.2004.824826     Document Type: Article

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