On the effectiveness of continuous-time mixes under flow-correlation based anonymity attacks

International Journal of Network Security

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 130-140

  Zhu, Ye ^a   Fu, Xinwen ^b   Bettati, Riccardo ^c  

^a Cleveland State University   (United States)

^b DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Mix; Mutual information

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CONTINUOUS-TIME; FLOW CORRELATION; INCOMING PACKETS; MIX; MIX NETWORKS; MUTUAL INFORMATIONS;

COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84874795738     PISSN: 1816353X     EISSN: 18163548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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