Selectively traceable anonymity

Luis Von Ahn; Andrew Bortz; Nick Hopper; Kevin O'Neill

doi:10.1007/11957454_12

Selectively traceable anonymity

Luis Von Ahn, Andrew Bortz, Nick Hopper, Kevin O'Neill

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Anonymous communication can, by its very nature, facilitate socially unacceptable behavior; such abuse of anonymity is a serious impediment to its widespread deployment. This paper studies two notions related to the prevention of abuse. The first is selective traceability, the property that a message's sender can be traced with the help of an explicitly stated set of parties. The second is noncoercibility, the property that no party can convince an adversary (using technical means) that he was not the sender of a message. We show that, in principal, almost any anonymity scheme can be made selectively traceable, and that a particular anonymity scheme can be modified to be noncoercible.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Privacy Enhancing Technologies - 6th International Workshop, PET 2006, Revised Selected Papers
Pages	208-222
Number of pages	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/11957454_12
State	Published - 2006
Event	6th International Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2006 - Cambridge, United Kingdom Duration: Jun 28 2006 → Jun 30 2006

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	4258 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	6th International Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2006
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Cambridge
Period	6/28/06 → 6/30/06

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Von Ahn, L., Bortz, A., Hopper, N., & O'Neill, K. (2006). Selectively traceable anonymity. In Privacy Enhancing Technologies - 6th International Workshop, PET 2006, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 208-222). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4258 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/11957454_12

Selectively traceable anonymity. / Von Ahn, Luis; Bortz, Andrew; Hopper, Nick et al.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies - 6th International Workshop, PET 2006, Revised Selected Papers. 2006. p. 208-222 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 4258 LNCS).

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Von Ahn, L, Bortz, A, Hopper, N & O'Neill, K 2006, Selectively traceable anonymity. in Privacy Enhancing Technologies - 6th International Workshop, PET 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 4258 LNCS, pp. 208-222, 6th International Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2006, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 6/28/06. https://doi.org/10.1007/11957454_12

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