Title :
Anonymous connections and onion routing
Author :
Syverson, Paul F. ; Goldschlag, David M. ; Reed, Michael G.
Author_Institution :
Center for High Assurance Comput. Syst., Naval Res. Lab., Washington, DC, USA
Abstract :
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
Keywords :
Internet; data privacy; electronic mail; security of data; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication traffic; Sun Solaris 2.X; World Wide Web browsing; anonymous connections; data stream; eavesdropping; electronic mail; identifying information removal; onion routing; performance; proxies; remote logins; specification; traffic analysis; unmodified Internet applications; vulnerability analysis; Cryptography; Internet; Laboratories; Performance analysis; Protection; Prototypes; Routing; Sockets; Sun; Telecommunication traffic;
Conference_Titel :
Security and Privacy, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Oakland, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7828-3
DOI :
10.1109/SECPRI.1997.601314
