Anonymity v.s. information leakage in anonymity systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 514-524

  Zhu, Ye ^a   Bettati, Riccardo ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Covert Channels; Mix Networks

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL CAPACITY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; TOPOLOGY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATA PRIVACY;

ANONYMITY; INFORMATION LEAKAGE; MIX NETWORKS; REAL SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ANONYMITY SYSTEMS; COVERT CHANNEL CAPACITY; INFORMATION LEAKAGE; MIX NETWORKS;

EID: 27944454436     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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