Building incentives into tor

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

Volumn 6052 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 238-256

  Johnny Ngan, Tsuen Wan ^a   Dingledine, Roger ^b   Wallach, Dan S ^c  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^b Tor Project   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION; NETWORK THROUGHPUT; SELFISH USERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 77955329624     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14577-3_19     Document Type: Conference Paper

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