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DataCamo: http://datacamo.cs.tamu.edu

Within the DataCamo ( Data Camouflaging ) project, we investigate techniques that enable data mining on private data while respecting the privacy of data owners. In particular, we focus on distributed data mining systems where private data are either partitioned and stored in autonomous entities, or fully distributed in the sense that each data tuple is held by its individual owner. Our work is motivated by the challenges posed by the rapidly growing needs of sharing information through the Internet, whose success depends on protecting privacy in communications between business and customers, and between different businesses.

NetCamo: http://netcamo.cs.tamu.edu

It is expected that, within a few years, the majority of traffic on the Internet will be encrypted. Traffic contents will then be very difficult to access, and obsevers will use traffic analysis to infer information about a system. Within the NetCamo ( Network Camouflaging ) project, we study how to prevent traffic analysis in mission-critical QoS-guaranteed networks. In NetCamo, we achieve prevention of traffic analysis by traffic rerouting and padding based on real-time traffic modeling theory. We implemented both host-based version (called NetCamo/M) on Windows NT and appliance-based version (called NetCamo/N) on Linux.

NetEx: http://netex.cs.tamu.edu

NetEx ( Network Express ) is a communication software package developed by the Real-Time Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science at Texas A&M University. NetEx is a library of communication primitives that enables user applications to participate in delay guaranteed communications. NetEx consists of three main components: user library, Host Traffic Manager (HTM) and Network Traffic Manager (NTM). User library is the interface of NetEx to the end users. HTM is the module responsible for managing and policing traffic at the host. NTM is primarily responsible for connection management of the entire system.