Home  |   Login  |   Logout  |   Access Information  |   Alerts  |   Purchase History  |   Cart  |   Sitemap  |   Help   
 
Login
BROWSE SEARCH IEEE XPLORE GUIDE SUPPORT
Article Information

Prefix-preserving IP address anonymization: measurement-based security evaluation and a new cryptography-based scheme

Jun Xu; Jinliang Fan; Ammar, M.H.; Moon, S.B.
Network Protocols, 2002. Proceedings. 10th IEEE International Conference on
Volume , Issue , 12-15 Nov. 2002 Page(s): 280 - 289
Digital Object Identifier  
Summary: Real-world traffic traces are crucial for Internet research, but only a very small percentage of traces collected are made public. One major reason why traffic trace owners hesitate to make the traces publicly available is the concern that confidential and private information may be inferred from the trace. We focus on the problem of anonymizing IP addresses in a trace. More specifically, we are interested in prefix-preserving anonymization in which the prefix relationship among IP addresses is preserved in the anonymized trace, making such a trace usable in situations where prefix relationships are important. The goal of our work is two fold. First, we develop a cryptography-based, prefix-preserving anonymization technique that is provably as secure as the existing well-known TCPdpriv scheme, and unlike TCPdpriv, provides consistent prefix-preservation in large scale distributed setting. Second, we evaluate the security properties inherent in all prefix-preserving IP address anonymization schemes (including TCPdpriv). Through the analysis of Internet backbone traffic traces, we investigate the effect of some types of attacks on the security of any prefix-preserving anonymization algorithm. We also derive results for the optimum manner in which an attack should proceed, which provides a bound on the effectiveness of attacks in general.

» View citation and abstract
IEEE Members

Log in by entering your IEEE Web Account Username and Password.

IEEE Communications Society members: If you subscribe to the IEEE Electronic Periodicals Package or IEEE Electronic Periodicals Package Plus, you must access your subscription at www.comsoc.org.

Users at Subscribing Institutions

Check with your librarian, information professional, or system manager to determine if you need to log in. Please complete the online Technical Support Form if you need assistance.

Already Purchased This Article?

Select the Purchase History link to access the document. You will have 5 Days after purchase to access the Full Text PDF. Please complete the online Technical Support Form if you need assistance.
Guests

• Search and access Abstract records free of charge
• Register for table of contents alerts
• Purchase Full Text PDF documents

» Learn more about subscription options or how to become an IEEE Member.
You are not logged in.
LOGIN
Username
Password
GO
» Forgot your password?
Please remember to log out when you have finished your session.
You must log in to access:
• Advanced or Author Search
• CrossRef Search
• AbstractPlus Records
• Full Text PDF
• Full Text HTML
Access this document
» Buy this document now
» Learn more about
» Learn more about
   purchasing articles
   and standards
Learn more about IEEE Subscriptions
Indexed by IEE Inspec
© Copyright 2009 IEEE – All Rights Reserved