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We motivate and introduce our design and development of a secure submission front-end for online whistleblowing platforms. Our system is designed to provide a level of anonymity in the face of adversaries who can perform end-to-end traffic analysis.
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Roth, V., Güldenring, B., Rieffel, E., Dietrich, S., Ries, L. (2013). A Secure Submission System for Online Whistleblowing Platforms. In: Sadeghi, AR. (eds) Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7859. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39884-1_30
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