Reasoning about the Anonymity Provided by Pool Mixes That Generate Dummy Traffic

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3200, Issue , 2004, Pages 309-325

  Díaz, Claudia ^a   Preneel, Bart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ATTACK; ATTACKS SCENARIOS; DUMMY TRAFFICS; EMAIL SERVICES; RECIPIENT ANONYMITY; SENDER ANONYMITY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

EID: 35048831821     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30114-1_22     Document Type: Article

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