The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)

The Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security

gap - Practical Anonymous Networking

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Author

Krista Bennett and Christian Grothoff

Tech report number

CERIAS TR 2003-59

Entry type

inproceedings

Abstract

his paper describes how anonymity is achieved in GNUnet, a framework for anonymous distributed and secure networking. We describe GAP, a simple protocol for anonymous transfer of data which can achieve better anonymity guarantees than traditional indirection schemes and is additionally more efficient. While the building blocks of our technique are similar to previous work, we offer a new perspective on how to perceive and measure anonymity. Based on this new perspective we are able to modify the protocol to allow individual nodes to trade anonymity for efficiency.

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http://www.ovmj.org/GNUnet/download/aff.ps

Booktitle

Designing Privacy Enhancing Technologies

Institution

Purdue University

Key alpha

bennett

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Organization

CERIAS

Publisher

Springer-Verlag

School

Computer Science

Affiliation

Secure Software Systems Lab and CERIAS

Publication Date

2003-01-01

Contents

* anonymity * GNUnet * source rewriting * trading anonymity for efficiency * attacks

Language

English

Subject

Trading anonymity for efficiency in anonymous peer-to-peer networking

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