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ICGS3 2017: Global Security, Safety and Sustainability - The Security Challenges of the Connected World pp 371–384Cite as

A Novel Anonymity Quantification and Preservation Model for UnderNet Relay Networks

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Abstract

With the wide spread of Internet applications in both the surface net (Internet) and Darknet, the necessity to safeguard privacy and anonymity has become more prominent than ever. In an attempt to assure untraceability and undetectability between entities, as part of the communication process, traditional confidentiality mechanisms have proved insufficient to address attacks against those principles. In addition, different international laws and cross-continental cybercrimes become immune from being affected by a global public policy on how data traffic should be treated. In this article, a holistic view of anonymity preservation approaches and techniques is given with emphasis on the partial articulation of a novel anonymity preservation model based on infrastructure elements, circuit attributes and adversarial engagement rates on clustered and unindexed portions of the cyberspace.

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    Hidden space, hidden Web, or UnderNet refers to the portion of the cyberspace which is not indexed by traditional search engines in the surface Net (Internet).

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Epiphaniou, G., French, T., Al-Khateeb, H., Dehghantanha, A., Jahankhani, H. (2016). A Novel Anonymity Quantification and Preservation Model for UnderNet Relay Networks. In: Jahankhani, H., et al. Global Security, Safety and Sustainability - The Security Challenges of the Connected World. ICGS3 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 630. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51064-4_30

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