How Well Can Anonymous Networks Protect Your Privacy? An Exploration on the Quality of Internet Anonymity Services
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Presenter: Jing Jin (George Mason University)
Privacy and anonymity are major concerns for Internet users. Anonymous networks provide services to disguise the identity and correspondence between communicating parties. However, the effectiveness of low latency anonymity services against timing attacks is unexplored. We proposed an Energy-based metric to quantitatively measure the effectiveness of anonymous networks in the presence of timing attack. We found strong correlations between energy-based metric and the timing attack results through our systematic measurement.
