In the last years, the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications to share and exchange
knowledge among people around the world has experienced an exponential growth …

Abstract Although anonymizing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks often means extra cost in terms
of transfer efficiency, many systems try to mask the identities of their users for privacy …

A mutual anonymity system enables communication between a client and a service provider
without revealing their identities. In general, the anonymity guarantees made by the protocol …

Existing peer-to-peer systems that aim to provide anonymity to its users are based on
networks with unstructured or loosely-structured routing algorithms. Structured routing offers …

Anonymizing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems often incurs extra costs in terms of transfer
efficiency; many systems try to mask the identities of their users for privacy considerations …

Compared with traditional static Client/Server architecture, the P2P architecture is more
suitable for anonymous communication systems because it is more flexible and can keep …

In this paper, a disconnection-aware mechanism to provide anonymity in two-level P2P
systems is proposed. As usual, anonymity is obtained by means of connecting the source …

Providing anonymity support for peer-to-peer (P2P) overlay networks is critical. Otherwise,
potential privacy attacks (eg, network address traceback) may deter a storage source from …

In this paper, we present two types of protocols that can achieve mutual anonymity in peer-to-
peer (P2P) network environments, which means the identities of the service, requesters and …

Editors' note. Following the panel discussion on Mix Cascades versus P2P at PET 2004, we
invited the original panel proposers to write a summary of the discussion for the …