One bad apple spoils the bunch: Exploiting P2P applications to trace and profile tor users

LEET 2011 - 4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats: Botnets, spyware, Worms, and More

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Le Blond, Stevens ^a   Manils, Pere ^a   Chaabane, Abdelberi ^a   Kaafar, Mohamed Ali ^a   Castelluccia, Claude ^a   Legout, Arnaud ^a   Dabbous, Walid ^a  

^a INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTNET; COMPUTER VIRUSES; INTERNET PROTOCOLS;

ANONYMITY NETWORKS; BIT TORRENTS; CIRCUIT TRACES; IP ADDRESSS; LINKABILITY; LOW LATENCY; P2P APPLICATIONS; TCP STREAMS;

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 85084096178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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