Survey on anonymous communications in computer networks

Ren, Jian; Wu, Jie

doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2009.11.009

Cited by 94 publications

(69 citation statements)

References 88 publications

(124 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…More details and analysis of Tor can be found in a wide number of references in the literature since this protocol has been deeply analysed (Murdoch and Danezis, 2005;Abou-Tair et al, 2009;Danezis et al, 2009;Behl and Lilien, 2009;Edman and Yener, 2009;Chaabane et al, 2010;Fabian et al, 2010;Ren and Wu, 2010;Mulazzani et al, 2010;Hopper et al, 2010).…”

Section: Tormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More details and analysis of Web MIXes can be found in (Danezis et al, 2009;Edman and Yener, 2009;Ren and Wu, 2010;Westermann et al, 2010;Westermann and Kesdogan, 2011).…”

Section: Web Mixes/anon Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although there are an important number of proposals in each group, see (Danezis et al, 2009;Ren and Wu, 2010) for more proposed techniques, in the following subsections, only the description of the techniques that are implemented in the tools commented below is provided.…”

Section: Privacy Solutions For Tcp/ip Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These solutions also offer protection against traffic analysis. We can distinguish different kind of solutions that follow this approach and that can be classified in four main groups (Ren and Wu, 2010): Mixnet-based schemes, DC-net systems, network routing-based techniques and peer-to-peer networks.…”

Section: Privacy Solutions For Tcp/ip Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although there are an important number of solutions to cover privacy in (Web) communications (Linn, 2005;Danezis and Diaz, 2008;Edman and Yener, 2009;Behl and Lilien, 2009;Danezis and Gürses, 2010;Ren and Wu, 2010), it is important to point out that we will only center in those solutions and mechanisms that have been implemented and are currently being used.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 4 more Smart Citations

A survey on solutions and main free tools for privacy enhancing Web communications

Ruiz‐Martínez¹

2012

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Concern for privacy when users are surfing on the Web has increased recently. Nowadays, many users are aware that when they are accessing Web sites, these Web sites can track them and create profiles on the elements they access, the advertisements they see, the different links they visit, from which Web sites they come from and to which sites they exit, and so on. In order to maintain user privacy, several techniques, methods and solutions have appeared. In this paper we present an analysis of both these solutions and the main tools that are freely distributed or can be used freely and that implement some of these techniques and methods to preserve privacy when users and surfing on the Internet. This work, unlike previous reviews, shows in a comprehensive way, all the different risks when a user navigates on the Web, the different solutions proposed that finally have being implemented and being used to achieve Web privacy goal. Thus, users can decide which tools to use when they want navigate privately and what kind of risks they are assuming.

show abstract

Section: Tormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More details and analysis of Web MIXes can be found in (Danezis et al, 2009;Edman and Yener, 2009;Ren and Wu, 2010;Westermann et al, 2010;Westermann and Kesdogan, 2011).…”

Section: Web Mixes/anon Projectmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Privacy Solutions For Tcp/ip Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Privacy Solutions For Tcp/ip Layermentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 3 more Smart Citations

A survey on solutions and main free tools for privacy enhancing Web communications

Ruiz‐Martínez¹

2012

Journal of Network and Computer Applications

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Identity-based universal re-encryption for mixnets

Yajam

Mohajeri

Salmasizadeh

2015

Security Comm. Networks

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In order to provide anonymity, universal cryptosystems have been used in various applications, including mixnets with multiple receivers. Unlike ordinary re‐encryption cryptosystems, universal cryptosystems for re‐encryption of ciphertexts do not require knowledge of the public key of the receiver. Golle et al. introduced universal cryptosystems for public key cryptography. Contrary to public key cryptography, in ID‐based cryptography, a public key infrastructure is not needed, which makes it suitable for situations where it is not cost‐effective to distribute certificates or establish a public key infrastructure. In this paper, we first generalize the definition of universal cryptosystems and the notion of universal semantic security to ID‐based cryptography, then we propose two ID‐based universal cryptosystem schemes, and lastly we prove the security of these two schemes. The first scheme has higher efficiency in terms of computation and communication while the second scheme has proof of security in the standard model and has a tighter security band. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

show abstract

Privacy enhancement for fair PayWord-based micropayment

Fan

Liang

2012

Security Comm. Networks

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

A micropayment scheme provides a secure and efficient solution for electronic payment environments that require frequent transactions with nominal fees. It is particularly suitable for mobile applications in which a customer is charged for either time spent or data volume transferred. Most proposed micropayment schemes are based on “PayWord” by Rivest and Shamir. The security and efficiency of a micropayment scheme can be ensured by adopting the hash chain technique. Recent research on micropayment has introduced additional properties such as user anonymity and fairness. However, the existing schemes may lose efficiency and some of the original desirable properties of PayWord while achieving new ones. We propose an anonymous fair offline micropayment scheme that satisfies user anonymity and fairness and retains the efficiency and properties of PayWord, such as offline broker. A user can make multiple purchases from different vendors without interacting with the broker again. PayWord's postpaid mechanism is adopted in order to make our scheme more attractive to users. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first micropayment scheme to simultaneously offer the aforementioned properties. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

show abstract

Survey on anonymous communications in computer networks

Cited by 94 publications

References 88 publications

A survey on solutions and main free tools for privacy enhancing Web communications

A survey on solutions and main free tools for privacy enhancing Web communications

Identity-based universal re-encryption for mixnets

Privacy enhancement for fair PayWord-based micropayment

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About