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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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