Anonymous connections and onion routing

Onion routing provides anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to both eavesdropping and traffic analysis. Unmodified Internet applications can use these anonymous connections by means of proxies. The proxies may also make communication anonymous by removing identifying information from th...

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Main Authors: Syverson, P.F., Goldschlag, D.M., Reed, M.G.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Cryptography
Internet
Laboratories
Performance analysis
Protection
Prototypes
Routing
Sockets
Sun
Telecommunication traffic
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Summary:Onion routing provides anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to both eavesdropping and traffic analysis. Unmodified Internet applications can use these anonymous connections by means of proxies. The proxies may also make communication anonymous by removing identifying information from the data stream. Onion routing has been implemented on Sun Solaris 2.X with proxies for Web browsing, remote logins and e-mail. This paper's contribution is a detailed specification of the implemented onion routing system, a vulnerability analysis based on this specification, and performance results.
ISSN:1081-6011
2375-1207
DOI:10.1109/SECPRI.1997.601314