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PET
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Browser-Based Attacks on Tor
This paper describes a new attack on the anonymity of web browsing with Tor. The attack tricks a user’s web browser into sending a distinctive signal over the Tor network that ca...
Timothy G. Abbott, Katherine J. Lai, Michael R. Li...
CMS
2010
138views Communications» more  CMS 2010»
13 years 6 months ago
Tor HTTP Usage and Information Leakage
This paper analyzes the web browsing behaviour of Tor users. By collecting HTTP requests we show which websites are of interest to Tor users and we determined an upper bound on how...
Marcus Huber, Martin Mulazzani, Edgar Weippl
NDSS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Tune-up for Tor: Improving Security and Performance in the Tor Network
The Tor anonymous communication network uses selfreported bandwidth values to select routers for building tunnels. Since tunnels are allocated in proportion to this bandwidth, thi...
Robin Snader, Nikita Borisov
SAC
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Improving stream correlation attacks on anonymous networks
The level of anonymity offered by low latency, interactive, anonymous networks is unknown. This paper implements correlation attacks on the deployed Tor network and a simulated T...
Gavin O'Gorman, Stephen Blott
ICC
2008
IEEE
163views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
13 years 11 months ago
A New Replay Attack Against Anonymous Communication Networks
Abstract— Tor is a real-world, circuit-based low-latency anonymous communication network, supporting TCP applications on the Internet. In this paper, we present a new class of at...
Ryan Pries, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Wei Zhao