Crowds: anonymity for Web transactions

By Michael K. Reiter, Aviel D. Rubin. 1998

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Prio: Private, Robust, and Scalable Computation of Aggregate Statistics (2017, background): “PrivStats [100] and ANONIZE [76] outsource to Tor [51] (or another low-latency anonymity system [61, 88,101]) the work of protecting privacy against a network adversary (Figure 10).”
Riposte: An Anonymous Messaging System Handling Millions of Users (2015, background): “Aqua [54], Crowds [72], LAP [49], ShadowWalker [60], Tarzan [32], and Tor [28] belong to the first category of systems: they provide an anonymous proxy for real-time Web browsing, but they do not protect against an adversary who controls the network, many of the clients, and some of the nodes on a v”
Privacy and Data Protection by Design - from policy to engineering (2014, unknown): “Crowds: anonymity for web transactions.”
Taxonomy of trust: Categorizing P2P reputation systems (2006, background): “Separating sensitive data from subject identities, or using legally binding strict privacy policies may be sufficient [12] [13] [14].”
A peer-to-peer anonymizing network layer (2002, background): “Crowds [21] was named for collections of users that are used to achieve partial anonymity for Web browsing.”
Introducing MorphMix: peer-to-peer based anonymous Internet usage with collusion detection (2002, background): “Crowds [ 21 ] works by collecting Web users in a group (the “crowd”) to browse the Web anonymously.”
Practical Traffic Analysis: Extending and Resisting Statistical Disclosure (2004, background): “A sender who also runs a node in the mix network can conceal whether a given message originated at her node or was relayed from another node [5, 20, 29].”
Anonymity-preserving data collection (2005, background): “Systems like Crowds [27] and Hordes [22] provide practical anonymity for web access without assuming an existing anonymous channel.”
Tarzan: a peer-to-peer anonymizing network layer (2002, background): “proxy to defeat automatic HTTP re-requests [21].”
Enhancing wireless location privacy using silent period (2005, background): “Other important proposals to establish such anonymous communication channel include Onion Routing[10], Crowds[11], and Anonymizer [12].”
Statistical identification of encrypted Web browsing traffic (2002, methodology): “Other theoretical treatments include [7] and [23]; more practical work, geared specifically towards Web traÆc, includes the LWPA [15], CRO WDS [25] and HORDES [26].”
Addressing privacy requirements in system design: the PriS method (2008, background): “It is based on the idea that people can be anonymous when they blend into the crowd [30, 31].”
A vision for technology-mediated support for public participation & assistance in mass emergencies & disasters (2010, background): “A wealth of literature describes many techniques to effectively remove these network identifiers and achieve a degree of anonymity (Chaum, 1988; Reiter & Rubin, 1998; Dingledine et al., 2004).”
Cryptography from Anonymity (2006, background): “For lack of space, some of the material was omitted from this extended abstract and can be found in the full version [33] .”