Title :
The application of Bayesian statistics in measuring anonymity
Author :
HanRu Pei ; Yu Wang ; Zhijian Wang
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Comput. Inf. Eng., Hohai Univ., Nanjing, China
Abstract :
There are numerous efforts to measure the degree of anonymity. Among which the entropy anonymity is a popular one. However in practice entropy anonymity is hardly used because one of its assumptions is difficult to meet. In this paper we propose a method to tackle this problem. Our method is based on Bayesian statistics and can be used to compare the entropy anonymity of different anonymous communication systems. We use this method to analyze Threshold Mix to show its effectiveness and usefulness.
Keywords :
Bayes methods; entropy; Bayesian statistics; anonymity measurement; anonymous communication systems; entropy anonymity; threshold mix; Bayes methods; Communication systems; Conferences; Delays; Entropy; Probability distribution; Anonymity measurement; Bayesian statistics; Entropy anonymity;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS), 2014 5th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-3278-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICSESS.2014.6933623
