An Analysis of the Degradation of Anonymous Protocols

Proceedings of the Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security, NDSS 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages

  Wright, Matthew ^a   Adler, Micah ^a   Levine, Brian N ^a   Shields, Clay ^b  

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

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANONYMOUS NETWORK COMMUNICATIONS; ANONYMOUS PROTOCOL; GROUP MEMBERS; GROUP SIZE; ONION ROUTING; SCALABILITY ISSUE; UPPER BOUND;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 85180737609     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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