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

fYear

1997

fDate

4-7 May 1997

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

54

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Security and Privacy, 1997. Proceedings., 1997 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Oakland, CA

ISSN

1081-6011

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7828-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECPRI.1997.601314

Filename

601314