TMT: A new Tunable Mechanism of Tor based on the path length

Author

Chenglong Li ; Yibo Xue ; Longtao He ; Lidong Wang

Author_Institution

Nat. Comput. Network Emergency Response Tech. Team / Coordination Center of China (CNCERT/CC), Beijing, China

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 30 2012-Nov. 1 2012

Firstpage

661

Lastpage

665

Abstract

Tor is one of the most widely used low-latency anonymous communication systems currently. However, a fact that users have different requirements on anonymity and performance could not be required in Tor impacts its usability, performance and anonymity. In the paper, we firstly provide a new Tunable Mechanism of Tor (TMT) based on the path length. We analyze the anonymity influence of the path length by theoretical derivation. Then, through experiment evaluation, the result of the performance influence of the path length is shown. From the results above, TMT is flexible and easily deployed which could fulfill different demands of various users and become practical complement to Tor, thus enhancing the usability, diversity and security of Tor.

Keywords

Internet; data privacy; TMT; Tor diversity; Tor security; Tor usability; anonymity influence; low-latency anonymous communication systems; path length; tunable mechanism of Tor; Correlation; Entropy; Relays; Routing; Security; Usability; Anonymity; Performance; Tor; Tunable mechanism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cloud Computing and Intelligent Systems (CCIS), 2012 IEEE 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1855-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCIS.2012.6664257

Filename

6664257