On countermeasures to traffic analysis attacks

IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society Information Assurance Workshop

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 188-195

  Fu, X ^a   Graham, B ^a   Bettati, R ^a   Zhao, W ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer science; Contracts; Cryptography; Information analysis; Information security; Mission critical systems; Pattern recognition; Payloads; Protection; System testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONTRACTS; CRYPTOGRAPHY; CYBERNETICS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SECURITY OF DATA;

IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISMS; INFORMATION ASSURANCE; MISSION CRITICAL SYSTEMS; PAYLOADS; PROTECTION; STATISTICAL PATTERN RECOGNITION; SYSTEM TESTING; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS ATTACKS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 34548743797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SMCSIA.2003.1232420     Document Type: Conference Paper

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