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The architectures of deployed anonymity systems such as Tor suffer from two key problems that limit user's trust in these systems. First, paths for anonymous communication are built without considering trust relationships between users and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Prateek Mittal , Matthew Wright , Nikita Borisov

Ensuring privacy of individuals is of paramount importance to social network analysis research. Previous work assessed anonymity in a network based on the non-uniqueness of a node's ego network. In this work, we show that this approach does…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Rachel G. de Jong , Mark P. J. van der Loo , Frank W. Takes

Real social network datasets provide significant benefits for understanding phenomena such as information diffusion or network evolution. Yet the privacy risks raised from sharing real graph datasets, even when stripped of user identity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Sameera Horawalavithana , Adriana Iamnitchi

Communication anonymity is a key requirement for individuals under targeted surveillance. Practical anonymous communications also require indistinguishability - an adversary should be unable to distinguish between anonymised and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-08-07 Joseph Gardiner , Shishir Nagaraja

The Tor Network has been a significant part of the Internet for years. Tor was originally started in the Naval Research Laboratory for anonymous Internet browsing and Internet-based communication. From being used for anonymous…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Chaitanya Rahalkar , Anushka Virgaonkar , Kethaki Varadan

An anonymous dynamic network is a network of indistinguishable processes whose communication links may appear or disappear unpredictably over time. Previous research has shown that deterministically computing an arbitrary function of a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Giuseppe A. Di Luna , Giovanni Viglietta

Anonymous cloud architecture provides secure environment for business and also e-commerce approaches. By using this type of architecture, we can propose anonymous online applications. Customers who need secure and reliable online services…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Mehran Alidoost Nia , Aida Ghorbani , Reza Ebrahimi Atani

The Tor network provides users with strong anonymity by routing their internet traffic through multiple relays. While Tor encrypts traffic and hides IP addresses, it remains vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks such as the website…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yuwen Cui , Guangjing Wang , Khanh Vu , Kai Wei , Kehan Shen , Zhengyuan Jiang , Xiao Han , Ning Wang , Zhuo Lu , Yao Liu

Enormous amounts of data collected from social networks or other online platforms are being published for the sake of statistics, marketing, and research, among other objectives. The consequent privacy and data security concerns have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Ola N. Halawi , Faisal N. Abu-Khzam

While anonymity networks such as Tor provide invaluable privacy guarantees to society, they also enable all kinds of criminal activities. Consequently, many blameless citizens shy away from protecting their privacy using such technology for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Eric Wagner , Roman Matzutt , Martin Henze

Many real world networks contain a statistically surprising number of certain subgraphs, called network motifs. In the prevalent approach to motif analysis, network motifs are detected by comparing subgraph frequencies in the original…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-25 Anatol E. Wegner

The sharing of network traces is an important prerequisite for the development and evaluation of efficient anomaly detection mechanisms. Unfortunately, privacy concerns and data protection laws prevent network operators from sharing these…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2008-10-10 Martin Burkhart , Daniela Brauckhoff , Martin May

In order to prevent the disclosure of privacy-sensitive data, such as names and relations between users, social network graphs have to be anonymised before publication. Naive anonymisation of social network graphs often consists in deleting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Sjouke Mauw , Yunior Ramírez-Cruz , Rolando Trujillo-Rasua

Modern communication networks are inherently complex in nature. First of all, they have a large number of heterogeneous components. Secondly, their connectivity is extremely dynamic. Nodes can come and go, links can be removed and added…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Bisma S. Khan , Muaz A. Niazi

Various techniques need to be combined to realize anonymously authenticated communication. Cryptographic tools enable anonymous user authentication while anonymous communication protocols hide users' IP addresses from service providers. One…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Keita Emura , Akira Kanaoka , Satoshi Ohta , Takeshi Takahashi

Consider two data holders, ABC and XYZ, with graph data (e.g., social networks, e-commerce, telecommunication, and bio-informatics). ABC can see that node A is linked to node B, and XYZ can see node B is linked to node C. Node B is the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Didem Demirag , Mina Namazi , Erman Ayday , Jeremy Clark

Understanding what is normal is a key aspect of protecting a domain. Other domains invest heavily in observational science to develop models of normal behavior to better detect anomalies. Recent advances in high performance graph libraries,…

We describe our work in the collection and analysis of massive data describing the connections between participants to online social networks. Alternative approaches to social network data collection are defined and evaluated in practice,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-06-01 Salvatore A. Catanese , Pasquale De Meo , Emilio Ferrara , Giacomo Fiumara , Alessandro Provetti

In the age of digital interaction, person-to-person relationships existing on social media may be different from the very same interactions that exist offline. Examining potential or spurious relationships between members in a social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Zhihao Wu , Taoran Li , Ray Roman

The Tor anonymity network has been shown vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks by autonomous systems and Internet exchanges, which can observe different overlay hops belonging to the same circuit. We aim to determine whether network path…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-05 Joshua Juen , Aaron Johnson , Anupam Das , Nikita Borisov , Matthew Caesar