Defending anonymous communications against passive logging attacks

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 28-41

  Wright, M ^a   Adler, M ^a   Levine, B N ^a   Shields, C ^b  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC MODELS; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; NETWORK SECURITY;

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; INTERSECTION ATTACKS; PEER-TO-PEER SYSTEM; RANDOM PATHS; STATIC MODEL; UPPER BOUND; WEB REQUESTS;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84954435745     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SECPRI.2003.1199325     Document Type: Conference Paper

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