Defining “Anonymity” in Networked Communication
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Joan Feigenbaum Technical Report YALEU/DCS/TR-‐1448 December 2011 Support for anonymous communication in hostile environments is the main goal of DARPA’s “Safer Warfighter Communications” program (DARPA-‐BAA-‐10-‐69: SAFER). Despite the fact that the word is regularly encountered in common parlance, “anonymity” is actually a subtle concept – one that the computer-‐science community has worked hard (and not yet completely successfully) to define precisely. This briefing paper explains the concept of anonymity in the context of the SAFER program; it is intended for a general audience rather than for one with professional expertise in computer science and data networking.
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