Protocols using Anonymous Connections: Mobile Applications

Published: Apr 01, 2000
Updated: Apr 01, 2000
Section: Network Security Library :: Privacy
Author: Michael G. Reed
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This paper describes security protocols that use anonymous channels, which do not reveal their endpoints, as primitive, much in the way that key distribution protocols take encryption as primitive. This abstraction allows us to focus on high level security goals of these protocols much as abstracting away from encryption clarifies and emphasizes high level security goals of key distribution protocols. The protocols described are for mobile applications that protect the location information of the participating principals.

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