On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 01:18:11AM -0700, Spencer wrote: > Hi, > > > > >Paul Syverson: > >the meaning of technical terms > > > > So that I may verify and understand meaning, what terms? >
'Anonymity', more specifically communications anonymity. (As I've already said, I think "anonymity" is somewhat misleading as a term for practical low-latency traffic security systems because it generally is used to imply at least soem kind of uncertainty amongst a known given set. But often for realistic systems the set is neither fixed nor known. I talked about this in "Why I'm not an Entropist". There are multiple definitions used in the research literature, several even if you limit yourself to ones that are just some type of entropy (shannon entropy, min entropy, etc.) Rather than argue about whether or not something is _anonymous_ according to some imagined platonic form of anonymity or some such, specify operating environment (network model, etc.), usage model, adversary model, and security definition. Then describe how secure a given system is in that context. That's often hard to do fully for practical systems but the closer you come the more reliable your statement is. What you want to call it doesn't matter (except it kind of does because people will quite reasonably apply their intuitions and prior knowledge to try to understand you ;>) aloha, Paul -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
