Shadow: Running Tor in a Box for Accurate and Efficient Experimentation

19th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium, NDSS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jansen, Rob ^a   Hopper, Nicholas ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NETWORK SECURITY; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION RESEARCH; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; DESIGN PROPOSAL; LIVE NETWORKS; PERFORMANCE; PERFORMANCE STATISTICS; PLANETLAB; SINGLE- MACHINES; USER PRIVACY;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 85180760932     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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