LAP: Lightweight Anonymity and Privacy. Hsiao, H., Kim, T. H., Perrig, A., Yamada, A., Nelson, S., Gruteser, M., & Ming, W. 05/2012 2012.
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Popular anonymous communication systems often require sending packets through a sequence of relays on dilated paths for strong anonymity protection. As a result, increased end-to-end latency renders such systems inadequate for the majority of Internet users who seek an intermediate level of anonymity protection while using latency-sensitive applications, such as Web applications. This paper serves to bridge the gap between communication systems that provide strong anonymity protection but with intolerable latency and non-anonymous communication systems by considering a new design space for the setting. More specifically, we explore how to achieve near-optimal latency while achieving an intermediate level of anonymity with a weaker yet practical adversary model (i.e., protecting an end-host\textquoterights identity and location from servers) such that users can choose between the level of anonymity and usability. We propose Lightweight Anonymity and Privacy (LAP), an efficient network-based solution featuring lightweight path establishment and stateless communication, by concealing an end-host\textquoterights topological location to enhance anonymity against remote tracking. To show practicality, we demonstrate that LAP can work on top of the current Internet and proposed future Internet architectures.
@conference {oakland2012-lap,
	title = {LAP: Lightweight Anonymity and Privacy},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy},
	year = {2012},
	month = {05/2012},
	publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
	organization = {IEEE Computer Society},
	address = {San Francisco, CA, USA},
	abstract = {Popular anonymous communication systems often require sending packets through a sequence of relays on dilated paths for strong anonymity protection. As a result, increased end-to-end latency renders such systems inadequate for the majority of Internet users who seek an intermediate level of anonymity protection while using latency-sensitive applications, such as Web applications. This paper serves to bridge the gap between communication systems that provide strong anonymity protection but with intolerable latency and non-anonymous communication systems by considering a new design space for the setting. More specifically, we explore how to achieve near-optimal latency while achieving an intermediate level of anonymity with a weaker yet practical adversary model (i.e., protecting an end-host{\textquoteright}s identity and location from servers)
such that users can choose between the level of anonymity and usability. We propose Lightweight Anonymity and Privacy (LAP), an efficient network-based solution featuring lightweight path establishment and stateless communication, by concealing an end-host{\textquoteright}s topological location to enhance anonymity against
remote tracking. To show practicality, we demonstrate that LAP can work on top of the current Internet and proposed future Internet architectures.
},
	keywords = {anonymous communication anonymity protection, LAP},
	author = {Hsu-Chun Hsiao and Tiffany Hyun-Jin Kim and Adrian Perrig and Akira Yamada and Sam Nelson and Marco Gruteser and Wei Ming}
}

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