Privately waiting - A usability analysis of the Tor anonymity network

16th Americas Conference on Information Systems 2010, AMCIS 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1427-1437

  Fabian, Benjamin ^a   Goertz, Florian ^a   Kunz, Steffen ^a   Müller, Sebastian ^a   Nitzsche, Mathias ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Latency; Privacy; Security; Tor; Usability

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; LATENCY; SECURITY; TOR; USABILITY;

DATA PRIVACY; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; RISK MANAGEMENT; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84870438015     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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