Bootstrapping communications into an anti-censorship system

2nd USENIX Workshop on Free and Open Communications on the Internet, FOCI 2012, co-located with USENIX Security 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Lincoln, Patrick ^a   Mason, Ian ^a   Porras, Phillip ^a   Yegneswaran, Vinod ^a   Weinberg, Zachary ^b   Massar, Jeroen ^c   Simpson, William ^c   Vixie, Paul ^c   Boneh, Dan ^d  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Internet Systems Consortium   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK ARCHITECTURE;

ENCRYPTED TRAFFIC; ENTRY POINT; FOLLOW UP; NETWORK SCANNING; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 85084162137     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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