Crowds: anonymity for Web transactions
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
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ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
Untraceable electronic mail, return addresses, and digital pseudonyms
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International workshop on Designing privacy enhancing technologies: design issues in anonymity and unobservability
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Middleware '01 Proceedings of the IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms Heidelberg
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IHW '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Information Hiding
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SSYM'04 Proceedings of the 13th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 13
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Journal of Computer Science and Technology
One-time receiver address in IPv6 for protecting unlinkability
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Signal Processing
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This paper provides a survey of searchable, peer-to-peer file-sharing systems that offer the user some form of anonymity. We start this survey by giving a brief description of the most popular methods of providing anonymous communication. These include the Ants protocol, Onion routing, Multicasting, MIXes and UDP address spoofing. We then describe a number of implemented systems based on one, or a combination of, these methods. Finally, we discuss possible attacks on the anonymity of these systems and give examples of particular attacks and defences used by the systems we describe.