Traffic analysis: protocols, attacks, design issues, and open problems

  • Authors:
  • Jean-François Raymond

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • International workshop on Designing privacy enhancing technologies: design issues in anonymity and unobservability
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present the traffic analysis problem and expose the most important protocols, attacks and design issues. Afterwards, we propose directions for further research. As we are mostly interested in efficient and practical Internet based protocols, most of the emphasis is placed on mix based constructions. The presentation is informal in that no complex definitions and proofs are presented, the aim being more to give a thorough introduction than to present deep new insights.