Taming the Devil: Techniques for Evaluating Anonymized Network Data Export

@inproceedings{coull:devil, abstract = {Anonymization plays a key role in enabling the public release of network datasets, yet there are few, if any, techniques for evaluating the efficacy of network data anonymization techniques with respect to the privacy they afford. Specifically, we simulate the behavior of an adversary whose goal is to deanonymize objects, such as hosts or web pages, within the network data. By doing so, we are able to quantify the anonymity of the data using information theoretic metrics, objectively compare the efficacy of anonymization techniques, and examine the impact of selective deanonymization on the anonymity of the data.}, address = {San Diego, CA, USA}, author = {Coull, Scott and Wright, Charles and Keromytis, Angelos and Monrose, Fabian and Reiter, Michael}, booktitle = {Proceedings of NDSS 2008}, citeulike-article-id = {5807972}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/08/papers/08_taming_the_devil.pdf}, keywords = {anonymity, crawdad, crawdad\_mention, network-measurement}, month = {February}, posted-at = {2009-09-20 22:30:37}, priority = {2}, title = {Taming the Devil: Techniques for Evaluating Anonymized Network Data}, url = {http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/08/papers/08_taming_the_devil.pdf}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - coull:devil L3 - citeulike-article-id:5807972 N2 - Anonymization plays a key role in enabling the public release of network datasets, yet there are few, if any, techniques for evaluating the efficacy of network data anonymization techniques with respect to the privacy they afford. Specifically, we simulate the behavior of an adversary whose goal is to deanonymize objects, such as hosts or web pages, within the network data. By doing so, we are able to quantify the anonymity of the data using information theoretic metrics, objectively compare the efficacy of anonymization techniques, and examine the impact of selective deanonymization on the anonymity of the data. AD - San Diego, CA, USA TI - Taming the Devil: Techniques for Evaluating Anonymized Network Data T2 - Proceedings of NDSS 2008 KW - anonymity KW - crawdad KW - crawdad_mention KW - network-measurement AU - Coull, Scott AU - Wright, Charles AU - Keromytis, Angelos AU - Monrose, Fabian AU - Reiter, Michael PY - 2008/February// UR - http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ndss/08/papers/08_taming_the_devil.pdf ER -