Traffic Analysis Attacks and Countermeasures

ISBN-13: 9783639147773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 116 str.

Xinwen Fu

Opis

Security and privacy have gained more and more attention with the rapid growth and public acceptance of the Internet as a means of communication and information dissemination. Security and privacy of a computing or network system may be compromised by a variety of well-crafted attacks. In this monograph, we address issues related to security and privacy in computer network systems. Specifically, we model and analyze a special group of network attacks, known as traffic analysis attacks, and develop and evaluate their countermeasures. Traffic analysis attacks aim to derive critical information by analyzing traffic over a network. From our research, it is obvious that traffic analysis attacks present a serious challenge to the design of a secured computer network system. It is the objective of this study to develop robust but cost-effective solutions to counter link-load analysis attacks and flow-connectivity analysis attacks. It is our belief that our methodology can provide a solid foundation for studying the entire spectrum of traffic analysis attacks and their countermeasures.

O autorze

Dr. Xinwen Fu is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell. His current research interests are in network security and privacy. He has published over 50 papers in journals, conferences, and book chapters.