Dissent in numbers: Making strong anonymity scale

Proceedings of the 10th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, OSDI 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 179-192

  Wolinsky, David Isaac ^a   Corrigan Gibbs, Henry ^a   Ford, Bryan ^a   Johnson, Aaron ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; SCALABILITY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; CLIENT/SERVER ARCHITECTURE; CLIENT/SERVER DESIGN; GROUP ANONYMITIES; INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATIONS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; TRAFFIC ANALYSIS;

DENIAL-OF-SERVICE ATTACK;

EID: 84883293920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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