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Measuring anonymity: The disclosure attack

Written by: Dakshi Agrawal and Dogan Kesdogan.

Citation: IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, 1:27-34, November 2003.

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Abstract:
Anonymity services hide user identity at the network or address level but are vulnerable to attacks involving repeated observations of the user. Quantifying the number of observations required for an attack is a useful measure of anonymity.
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