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In recent years, interest has shifted from protecting the confidentiality of data to protecting the confidentiality of metadata. The police often learn more from traffic analysis than from content interception; thus anonymity becomes more important than confidentiality in the classical sense. Many researchers have been working with systems such as remailers and Tor in order to provide anonymity of various kinds against various threats.
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Anderson, R., Murdoch, S.J. (2011). What Next after Anonymity?. In: Christianson, B., Malcolm, J.A., Matyas, V., Roe, M. (eds) Security Protocols XVI. Security Protocols 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22137-8_29
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