Language identification of encrypted VoIP traffic: Alejandra y Roberto or Alice and Bob?

16th USENIX Security Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 43-54

  Wright, Charles V ^a   Ballard, Lucas ^a   Monrose, Fabian ^a   Masson, Gerald M ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPTOGRAPHY; INTERNET PROTOCOLS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; BANDWIDTH SAVINGS; BINARY CLASSIFICATION; CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; UNTRUSTED NETWORK; VARIABLE BIT RATE;

INTERNET TELEPHONY;

EID: 50249161557     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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