Anonymous Connections and Onion Routing

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.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA465126

Entities

People

  • David M. Goldschlag
  • Michael G. Reed
  • Paul Syverson

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Anonymous Communications
  • Application Protocols
  • Asymetric Encryption
  • Cryptography
  • Denial Of Service Attack
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Operations
  • Internet
  • Materials
  • Military Research
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Topology
  • Networks
  • Prototypes
  • Security
  • Websites

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking