Title :
A Perfect Collision-Free Pseudonym System
Author :
Yoon, Ji Won ; Kim, Hyoungshick
Author_Institution :
Trinity Coll. Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
fDate :
6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
For anonymous communication, the most popular method is to use pseudonyms instead of original identities. We previously demonstrated the possibility of a collision-free pseudonym system by uniquely assigning a permutation element to each network entity. We extend this idea by assigning k permutation elements to each entity for k ≥ 1. We analyse the randomness of the pseudonyms used in the proposed system to show the effect of k by varying k from 1 to 50. Our experimental results show that our pseudonym system can provide practical anonymity with k.
Keywords :
computational complexity; telecommunication networks; anonymous communication; network entity; perfect collision-free pseudonym system; Arrays; Complexity theory; Correlation; Entropy; Loading; Monte Carlo methods; Testing; Collsion-free pseudonym; anonymous communication; collision-free; pseudo-random permutation;
Journal_Title :
Communications Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LCOMM.2011.040711.110052