Title :
Measuring anonymity: the disclosure attack
Author :
Agrawal, Dakshi ; Kesdogan, Dogan
Abstract :
Anonymity services hide user identity at the network or address level but are vulnerable to attacks involving repeated observations of the user. Quantifying the number of observations required for an attack is a useful measure of anonymity.
Keywords :
data privacy; security of data; telecommunication security; anonymity services; disclosure attack; repeated observations; user identity; Bipartite graph; Cryptography; Joining processes; Privacy; Protection; Protocols; Public key; Relays; Telecommunication traffic;
Journal_Title :
Security & Privacy, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MSECP.2003.1253565
