Crowds: Anonymity for Web Transactions (1997)(Make Corrections)(49 citations) MICHAEL K. REITER Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies and AVIEL D. RUBIN...
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security
Abstract: this paper we introduce a system called Crowds for protecting users' anonymity on the
world-wide-web. Crowds, named for the notion of "blending into a crowd," operates by
grouping users into a large and geographically diverse group (crowd) that collectively issues
requests on behalf of its members. Web servers are unable to learn the true source of a request
because it is equally likely to have originated from any member of the crowd, and even
collaborating crowd members cannot distinguish the... (Update)
...may cause an adversary to take action against all of them. An alternate approach to classifying levels of anonymity is presented by [41], where anonymity levels for users range from exposed to beyond suspicion . These levels are in terms of an idealized adversary s...
...use of public key encryption imposes is small and could be overlooked by merchants that only deal with a small number of customers. Crowds[16, 17]. Crowds is the name of a randomized routing protocol that has been developed to provide 12 Sender Receiver Mix level 1 Mix level...
Michael K. Reiter and Aviel D. Rubin. Crowds: Anonymity for web transactions. Technical Report 97-15, DIMACS, August 1997. Revised version. http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/284739.html More
@article{ reiter98crowds,
author = "Michael K. Reiter and Aviel D. Rubin",
title = "Crowds: anonymity for {Web} transactions",
journal = "ACM Transactions on Information and System Security",
volume = "1",
number = "1",
pages = "66--92",
year = "1998",
url = "citeseer.nj.nec.com/284739.html" }