The Internet has undergone dramatic changes in the past 2 decades and now forms a global
communication platform that billions of users rely on for their daily activities. While this …

Tor is the second generation onion router supporting the anonymous transport of TCP
streams over the Internet. Its low latency makes it very suitable for common tasks, such as …

Many security mechanisms are based on specific assumptions of identity and are vulnerable
to attacks when these assumptions are violated. For example, impersonation is the well …

In mobile wireless networks, third parties can track the location of mobile nodes by
monitoring the pseudonyms used for identification. A frequently proposed solution to protect …

Anonymity is a subdiscipline of information hiding, required in a number of applications,
such as in electronic voting. For network communications, anonymity can be provided by a …

The Nym network (" Nym") is a decentralized and incentivized infrastructure to provision
privacy to a broad range of message-based applications and services. The core component …

The EPC Network is an industry proposal to build a global information architecture for
objects carrying RFID tags with electronic product codes (EPC). A so-called object naming …

In our modern information age, recent technical developments and trends, such as mobile
and pervasive computing, big data, cloud computing, and Web 2.0 applications, increasingly …

Low-latency anonymous communication networks require padding to resist timing analysis
attacks, and dependent link padding has been proven to prevent these attacks with minimal …

Neither of the two anonymisation services Tor and AN. ON clearly outperforms the other one.
AN. ON's user-perceived QoS is generally more consistent over time than Tor's. While AN …