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.
Index Terms:
anonymity, traffic analysis, evaluation and measurement of anonymity
Citation:
Dakshi Agrawal, Dogan Kesdogan, "Measuring Anonymity: The Disclosure Attack," IEEE Security and Privacy, vol. 1, no. 6, pp. 27-34, Nov. 2003, doi:10.1109/MSECP.2003.1253565