Minimising anonymity loss in anonymity networks under DoS attacks
Minimising anonymity loss in anonymity networks under DoS attacks
Anonymity is a security property of paramount importance as it helps to protect users’ privacy by ensuring that their identity remains unknown. Anonymity protocols generally suffer from denial of service (DoS) attack, as repeated message retransmission affords more opportunities for attackers to analyse traffic and lower the protocols’ privacy. In this paper, we analyse how users can minimise their anonymity loss under DoS attacks by choosing to remove or keep ‘failed’ nodes from router lists. We also investigate the strategy effectiveness in those cases where users cannot decide whether the ‘failed’ node are the targets of DoS attacks.
414-429
Yang, Mu
5b63ff7c-7560-423e-ac2c-e8e19396da7c
Sassone, Vladimiro
df7d3c83-2aa0-4571-be94-9473b07b03e7
23 November 2011
Yang, Mu
5b63ff7c-7560-423e-ac2c-e8e19396da7c
Sassone, Vladimiro
df7d3c83-2aa0-4571-be94-9473b07b03e7
Yang, Mu and Sassone, Vladimiro
(2011)
Minimising anonymity loss in anonymity networks under DoS attacks.
In: 13th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, 23rd-26th, Nov, 2011, Beijing, China. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7043, .
Abstract
Anonymity is a security property of paramount importance as it helps to protect users’ privacy by ensuring that their identity remains unknown. Anonymity protocols generally suffer from denial of service (DoS) attack, as repeated message retransmission affords more opportunities for attackers to analyse traffic and lower the protocols’ privacy. In this paper, we analyse how users can minimise their anonymity loss under DoS attacks by choosing to remove or keep ‘failed’ nodes from router lists. We also investigate the strategy effectiveness in those cases where users cannot decide whether the ‘failed’ node are the targets of DoS attacks.
Text
fulltext.pdf
- Version of Record
More information
Published date: 23 November 2011
Venue - Dates:
Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Information and communications security, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2011-11-23
Organisations:
Web & Internet Science
Identifiers
Local EPrints ID: 273078
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/273078
PURE UUID: 5a912204-51a9-48a1-8a6a-2d97be8bcc46
Catalogue record
Date deposited: 29 Dec 2011 09:49
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 10:17
Export record
Contributors
Author:
Mu Yang
Author:
Vladimiro Sassone
Download statistics
Downloads from ePrints over the past year. Other digital versions may also be available to download e.g. from the publisher's website.
View more statistics