DocumentCode
900215
Title
Deploying Low-Latency Anonymity: Design Challenges and Social Factors
Author
Dingledine, Roger ; Mathewson, Nick ; Syverson, Paul
Volume
5
Issue
5
fYear
2007
Firstpage
83
Lastpage
87
Abstract
Anonymous communication systems hide conversations against unwanted observations. Deploying an anonymous communications infrastructure presents surprises unlike those found in other types of systems. To address these and related issues, we designed Tor (the onion routing), a widely used low-latency, general-purpose anonymous communication infrastructure a overlay network for anonymizing TCP streams over the real-world Internet. Distribution of trust is central to the Tor philosophy and pervades Tor at all levels.
Keywords
Internet; routing protocols; security of data; telecommunication security; transport protocols; Internet; TCP stream; Tor philosophy; anonymous communication system; low-latency anonymity; overlay network; transport protocol; Circuits; Communication system security; Computer security; Graphical user interfaces; Peer to peer computing; Privacy; Social factors; Standards publication; Telecommunication traffic; World Wide Web; Tor; anonymizer; emerging standards; networking; onion routing; peer-to-peer; privacy;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Security & Privacy, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
1540-7993
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSP.2007.108
Filename
4336287
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