Holistic confidentiality in open networks

The aim of this work is to act as a foundational work for providing data protection in open environments. To this end, we give an overview of important parts and aspects of this research area. We display the research area in a bigger context and from a practical point of view. This position allows to see the big picture of current advancements and issues in the area of our topic. We also give an extensive discussion on the entities related to the use and deployment of anonymous communication systems and those affected by these networks. To this end, we show characteristics of each entities situation and examine their needs. This does not only refer to requirements directly connected to security but also those which influence security in a more indirect way. We include studies about the users of anonymization networks. The findings are summarized in an analysis for multilateral security. A novel attacker model for anonymous communication systems is developed. The motivation for this is to overcome the limitations and ambiguities in the existing theoretical works. After we have described the properties which should be fulfilled by a classification, we continue with a list of properties inherent to attackers. Furthermore, we describe their motivations and finally provide a taxonomy which fills the gap between theoretical attacker models and real networks.

Grantor dc:publisher

Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University

Year dc:date

2009

Author dc:creator

• Pimenidis, Kyriakos Alexis

Contributors dc:contributor

• Spaniol, Otto

• info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/004
• Anonymität
• Computersicherheit
• Rechnernetz
• Vertraulichkeit
• Informatik
• anonymity
• IT security
• computer networks
• confidentiality

Statement dc:rights

• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/search?p=id:%22RWTH-CONV-113136%22

OAI record oai:identifier

https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/oai2d?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Apublications.rwth-aachen.de%3A50596