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Trust in Anonymity Networks

Trust in Anonymity Networks
Trust in Anonymity Networks
Anonymity is a security property of paramount importance, as we move steadily towards a wired, online community. Its import touches upon subjects as different as eGovernance, eBusiness and eLeisure, as well as personal freedom of speech in authoritarian societies. Trust metrics are used in anonymity networks to support and enhance reliability in the absence of verifiable identities, and a variety of security attacks currently focus on degrading a user's trustworthiness in the eyes of the other users. In this paper, we analyse the privacy guarantees of the \textsc{Crowds} anonymity protocol, with and without onion forwarding, for standard and adaptive attacks against the trust level of honest users.
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Sassone, Vladimiro
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Hamadou, Sardaouna
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Yang, Mu
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Sassone, Vladimiro
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Hamadou, Sardaouna
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Yang, Mu
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Sassone, Vladimiro, Hamadou, Sardaouna and Yang, Mu (2010) Trust in Anonymity Networks. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ARCoSS, 6269, 48-70.

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Anonymity is a security property of paramount importance, as we move steadily towards a wired, online community. Its import touches upon subjects as different as eGovernance, eBusiness and eLeisure, as well as personal freedom of speech in authoritarian societies. Trust metrics are used in anonymity networks to support and enhance reliability in the absence of verifiable identities, and a variety of security attacks currently focus on degrading a user's trustworthiness in the eyes of the other users. In this paper, we analyse the privacy guarantees of the \textsc{Crowds} anonymity protocol, with and without onion forwarding, for standard and adaptive attacks against the trust level of honest users.

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Published date: 2010
Organisations: Web & Internet Science

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Local EPrints ID: 271689
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/271689
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Date deposited: 11 Nov 2010 02:15
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 09:38

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Author: Vladimiro Sassone
Author: Sardaouna Hamadou
Author: Mu Yang

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