Anonymity v.s. information leakage in anonymity systems Conference Paper

abstract

• Measures for anonymity in systems must be on one hand simple and concise, and on the other hand reflect the realities of real systems. Such systems are heterogeneous, as are the ways they are used, the deployed anonymity measures, and finally the possible attack methods. Implementation quality and topologies of the anonymity measures must be considered as well. We therefore propose a new measure for the anonymity degree, which takes into account possible heterogeneity. We model the effectiveness of single mixes or of mix networks in terms of information leakage and measure it in terms of covert channel capacity. The relationship between the anonymity degree and information leakage is described, and an example is shown. 2005 IEEE.

name of conference

• 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS'05)

authors

• Bettati, Riccardo

published proceedings

• 25th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Proceedings

author list (cited authors)

• Zhu, Y., & Bettati, R.

citation count

• 28

complete list of authors

• Zhu, Y||Bettati, R

publication date

• January 2005

publisher

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)  Publisher

published in

• Distributed Computing Systems  Journal

keywords

• Anonymity
• Covert Channels
• Mix Networks

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1109/ICDCS.2005.13

International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 10

• 0-7695-2331-5

start page

• 514

end page

• 524

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icdcs.2005.13