A Multi-faceted Approach to Anonymity Online: Examining the Relations between Anonymity and Antisocial Behaviour

A Systematic Approach to Anonymity

Personal information anonymity concerns anonymizing information that identifies individuals, in contrast to anonymizing activities such as downloading copyrighted items on the Internet. It may refer to encrypting personal data, generalization and suppression as in k-anonymization, ‘untraceability’ or ‘unidentifiability’ of identity in the network, etc. A common notion is hiding the “identities”...

Onion Routing and Online Anonymity

In this paper we present a technical description of onion routing, an anonymizing protocol that protects users against traffic analysis. Onion routing combines the concepts of proxy redirection and layered mixed-key cryptography to hide the routing of requests from every participant in the network except the originator of the request. We also analyze the performance and potential legal threats ...

Relations between semantic security and anonymity in identity-based encryption

Semantic security and anonymity are the two main properties that an identity-based encryption scheme can satisfy. Such properties can be defined in either an adaptive or a selective scenario, which differ on the moment where the attacker chooses the identity/ies that are the target of the attack. There are well-known separations between selective and adaptive semantic security on the one hand, ...

Anonymity, pseudonymity, and the agency of online identity: Examining the social practices of r/Gonewild

the relationship between language and social capital in ilami kurdish: a sociopragmatic approach

چکیده زبان به عنوان یک وسیله در ایجاد و بازسازی سرمایه اجتماعی در چند دهه گذشته مورد توجه بوده است. اگر چه درباره سرمایه اجتماعی و سازه های مربوط به آن زیاد نوشته شده است ولی خیلی کم بر روی اینکه چطور زبان می تواند باعث ایجاد اعتماد یا بی اعتمادی بشود مطالعه ای انجام شده است. این مطالعه به منظور تحقق دو هدف انجام گرفته است. اول تلاش خواهد شد تا یک گونه شناسی از واژگانی که مردم کرد زبان شهر ا...