DefenestraTor: Throwing out windows in Tor

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

Volumn 6794 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 134-154

  AlSabah, Mashael ^a   Bauer, Kevin ^a   Goldberg, Ian ^a   Grunwald, Dirk ^b   McCoy, Damon ^c   Savage, Stefan ^c   Voelker, Geoffrey M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK SECURITY; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS); WEBSITES;

'CURRENT; BACK PRESSURES; DYNAMIC CIRCUITS; FIXED SIZE; PERFORMANCE; PRIVACY ENHANCING TECHNOLOGIES; QUEUE LENGTHS; THROWING-OUT; WEB-PAGE; WINDOW-BASED;

FLOW CONTROL;

EID: 79961205200     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22263-4_8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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