Publication details

Analyses of Real Email Traffic Properties

Authors

MALINKA Kamil HANÁČEK Petr CVRČEK Daniel

Year of publication 2009
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Radioengineering
Citation
Keywords SMTP; email traffic; mixing; anonymity; social networks
Description In this paper, we perform an empirical analysis of email traffic logs obtained from a large university to better understand its impact on the effectiveness and efficiency of anonymous mix remailers. We analyzed data containing records of almost 790,000 emails sent over a period of forty days - the largest dataset we are aware of. The initial analysis of data is followed by an exploration of how variance in message arrival time and size impact the anonymity and efficiency provided by timed and threshold mixes, respectively. The analysis results are subsequently explored for their possible impact on traffic analysis.

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