Revisiting circuit clogging attacks on tor

Proceedings - 2013 International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 131-140

  Chan Tin, Eric ^a   Shin, Jiyoung ^a   Yu, Jiangmin ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Attack; Circuit Clogging; Privacy; Tor

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; ATTACK; BURST PERIOD; DETECTION MECHANISM; DETECTION SCHEME; NETWORK LATENCIES; PROCESSING TIME; TOR;

DATA PRIVACY;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84892383749     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ARES.2013.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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