Abstract—With rising concerns on user privacy over the Internet, anonymous communication systems that hide the identity of a participant from its partner or third parties are hig...
A major concern for large-scale deployment of location-based services (LBSs) is the potential abuse of their client location data, which may imply sensitive personal information. ...
In this paper, we introduce a novel metric that can quantitatively measure the practical effectiveness (i.e. anonymity) of all anonymous networks in the presence of timing attack....
Peer-to-peer VoIP calls are becoming increasingly popular due to their advantages in cost and convenience. When these calls are encrypted from end to end and anonymized by low lat...
Anonymity means that the identity of the user performing a certain action is maintained secret. The protocols for ensuring anonymity often use random mechanisms which can be descr...