LASTor: A low-latency AS-aware Tor client

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 476-490

  Akhoondi, Masoud ^a   Yu, Curtis ^a   Madhyastha, Harsha V ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY NETWORKS; ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION; CLIENT SIDES; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; INTERNET PATHS; INTERNET ROUTING; LOW LATENCY; PATH SELECTION; SYSTEM-AWARE; TOR NETWORKS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84878356050     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SP.2012.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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