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On anonymity in an electronic society: A survey of anonymous communication systems
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@MISC{Edman_onanonymity,
author = {Matthew Edman and Bülent Yener},
title = {On anonymity in an electronic society: A survey of anonymous communication systems},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
The past two decades have seen a growing interest in methods for anonymous communication on the Internet, both from the academic community and the general public. Several system designs have been proposed in the literature, of which a number have been implemented and are used by diverse groups, such as journalists, human rights workers, the military, and ordinary citizens, to protect their identities on the Internet. In this work, we survey the previous research done to design, develop, and deploy systems for enabling private and anonymous communication on the Internet. We identify and describe the major concepts and technologies in the field, including mixes and mix networks, onion routing, and Dining Cryptographers networks. We will also review powerful traffic analysis attacks that have motivated improvements and variations on many of these anonymity protocols made since their introduction. Finally, we will summarize some of the major open problems in anonymous communication research and discuss possible directions for future work in the field. Categories and Subject Descriptors: C.2.0 [Computer-Communication Networks]: General—Security and protection (e.g. firewalls); C.2.2 [Computer-Communication Networks]: Network Protocols—Applications
Keyphrases
anonymous communication system electronic society anonymous communication computer-communication network future work anonymous communication research cryptographer network mix network subject descriptor previous research ordinary citizen several system design general public academic community onion routing anonymity protocol deploy system diverse group powerful traffic analysis attack major open problem major concept network protocol application discus possible direction human right worker general security
