Title :
Route Fingerprinting in Anonymous Communications
Author :
Danezis, George ; Clayton, Richard
Author_Institution :
ESAT/COSIC, K.U. Leuven
Abstract :
Peer discovery and route set-up are an integral part of the processes by which anonymizing peer-to-peer systems are made secure. When systems are large, and individual nodes only gain random knowledge of part of the network, their traffic can be detected by the uniqueness of the information they have learnt. We discuss this problem, which occurred in the initial design of Tarzan, and other related problems from the literature
Keywords :
peer-to-peer computing; security of data; telecommunication network routing; telecommunication security; Tarzan design; anonymizing peer-to-peer system; anonymous communication; information traffic detection; peer discovery; route fingerprinting; route set-up; Fingerprint recognition; Information security; Laboratories; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Public key; Public key cryptography; Relays; Telecommunication traffic; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2006. P2P 2006. Sixth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2679-9
DOI :
10.1109/P2P.2006.33
