Development of Social Networks in Email Communication

MALINKA, Kamil and Jiří SCHÄFER. Development of Social Networks in Email Communication. In The Fourth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection. Venice: IEEE Computer Society, 2009, 5 pp. ISBN 978-0-7695-3612-5.

Basic information

Original name

Development of Social Networks in Email Communication

Authors

MALINKA, Kamil and Jiří SCHÄFER

Edition

Venice, The Fourth International Conference on Internet Monitoring and Protection, 5 pp. 2009

Publisher

IEEE Computer Society

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Other information

Type of outcome

Proceedings paper

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

ISBN

978-0-7695-3612-5

Keywords in English

SMTP, email traffic, mixing, anonymity, social networks

Tags

International impact, Reviewed

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Abstract

In the original language

In this paper, we perform an empirical analysis of email traffic logs obtained from a large university to better understand the development of social networks. We analyzed data containing records of emails sent over a period of 10 months - the largest dataset we are aware of. We study the long term evolution of social networks on real world data. The initial analysis of data is followed by an exploration of existence of how social network impacts the anonymity. We describe possibilities of modeling social network and describe dynamics of their development. Based on our result we design attack of proper selection, which could cause higher successfulness of disclosure attacks.