Summary: Probabilistic Treatment of MIXes to Hamper Traffic Analysis
Dakshi Agrawal
IBM Watson Research Center
19 Skyline Drive
Hawthorne, NY 10532, USA
agrawal@us.ibm.com
Dogan Kesdogan and Stefan Penz
Aachen University of Technology
Computer Science Department Informatik IV
Ahornstr. 55, D-52074 Aachen, Germany
{kesdogan, penz}@informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Abstract
The goal of anonymity providing techniques is to pre-
serve the privacy of users, who has communicated with
whom, for how long, and from which location, by hiding
traffic information. This is accomplished by organizing ad-
ditional traffic to conceal particular communication rela-
tionships and by embedding the sender and receiver of a
message in their respective anonymity sets. If the number of
overall participants is greater than the size of the anonymity

Source: Agrawal, Rakesh - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

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