Experimentor: A testbed for safe and realistic tor experimentation

4th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test, CSET 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Bauer, Kevin ^a   Sherr, Micah ^b   McCoy, Damon ^c   Grunwald, Dirk ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTBEDS;

GROWING BODIES; MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; PLANETLAB; PRIVACY ENHANCING TECHNOLOGIES; RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS; RESEARCH NETWORKS; SMALL SCALE; TOR NETWORKS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 85084164002     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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