Title :
BT-Crowds: Crowds-Style Anonymity with Bluetooth and Java
Author :
Vähä-Sipilä, Antti ; Virtanen, Teemupekka
Author_Institution :
Nokia
Abstract :
This paper aims to describe a new idea on how privacy in a Crowds-style network could be enhanced by running it over Bluetooth personal area networking. A potential implementation is described using the Java Bluetooth programming interface. The proposal is called BT-Crowds and it describes a store-and-forward Crowds and remailer-style service which uses the Bluetooth protocol stack and provides a system for privacy-enhanced communications that has some significant benefits over Crowds in fixed networks. It leverages the property of a single Bluetooth user being indistinguishable from a group of many, and the property of ad hoc networks being distributed in physical space.
Keywords :
Anonymity; Bluetooth; PAN; Privacy; Ad hoc networks; Bluetooth; Cameras; Displays; Ethernet networks; Java; Laboratories; Personal area networks; Privacy; Wireless LAN;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 2005. HICSS '05. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2268-8
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.2005.128