An anonymity attack model for pervasive computing environment
Guo Ya-jun, Wang Yulin · China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (CIICT 2007) · 2007
Anonymity is the main approach to protect users privacy by hiding user identity at pervasive computing environment. However, anonymity is vulnerable to attacks involving linkability observations between the user and its action. Currently researches mainly concentrate on the concrete anonymity schemes, but seldom concern how to evaluate the security of an anonymity mechanism in pervasive computing environment. In this paper, an anonymity attack model for pervasive computing is proposed. This model can evaluate and analyze the security of the anonymous mechanism, can find out the concealing security exposure, and can help design a new anonymity protection protocol.