Forensic investigation of the OneSwarm anonymous filesharing system

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 201-213

  Prusty, Swagatika ^a   Levine, Brian Neil ^a   Liberatore, Marc ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Child sexual exploitation; Digital forensics; P2P networks

Indexed keywords

CHILD SEXUAL EXPLOITATION; CIVIL SUITS; COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT; DIFFERENT ATTACKS; DIGITAL FORENSIC; FILE-SHARING SYSTEM; FORENSIC INVESTIGATION; NOVEL APPLICATIONS; ONION ROUTING; P2P FILE SHARING; P2P NETWORK; QUERY RESPONSE; SOURCE CODES; TIMING ATTACKS; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER FORENSICS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INVESTMENTS; NETWORK SECURITY;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 80755169502     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2046707.2046731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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