Ephemeral exit bridges for tor

Z Zhang, T Vaidya, K Subramanian… - 2020 50th Annual …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… is the introduction of Tor exit bridges. … that exit bridges effectively circumvent server-side
blocking of Tor with low overhead. Additionally, we perform a cost-analysis of exit bridges and …

Bypassing tor exit blocking with exit bridge onion services

Z Zhang, W Zhou, M Sherr - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGSAC …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
… We recently proposed the notion of ephemeral exit bridges for Tor [60] and envisioned
short-lived proxies hosted by popular cloud providers such as Amazon or Google. These proxies …

[PDF][PDF] Troll Patrol: Detecting Blocked Tor Bridges

I Vecna - 2024 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
… region (such as VPN exits or VPSes we rent), and we test many bridges, we may draw attention
… The rotating ephemeral key should be certified with a long-term signing key, and this key …

Running a high-performance pluggable transports Tor bridge

D Fifield, L Nordberg - Free and Open Communications on the …, 2023 - petsymposium.org
… and ephemeral port numbers. The recommendations come from our experience running a
Snowflake … transport relays, such as large exit relays. We hope, though, that a future version of …

Survey on bridge discovery in tor

F Yu, R Zhou, X Zhai, Y Qu, G Fei - International Conference on Ad Hoc …, 2021 - Springer
ephemeral source ports for connections to chosen bridges. Such … Tor access by blocking
the IP of the Tor exit node, the information of which is public. Therefore, the use of exit bridges […

How to block Tor's hidden bridges: detecting methods and countermeasures

M Yang, J Luo, L Zhang, X Wang, X Fu - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2013 - Springer
… that assigns ephemeral source ports for connections [4] to chosen bridges. Such ephemeral
… by duplicating cells to disrupt the AES counter at middle and exit onion routers, as Tor uses …

First glance: An introductory analysis of network forensics of Tor

R Hansen - 2013 - commons.erau.edu
Tor network is included here: • Bridge (Bridge Relay) – A Tor … the Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral
Key Exchange to establish a … or last (exit) Relay in the path So then, a Tor client must learn …

A Comprehensive Analysis on End-to-End Node Selection Probability on the Tor Network

S Dahal - 2015 - oak.chosun.ac.kr
… both guard as well as exit node of a Tor circuit. Thus, it is … in TOR network to discover the
total number of bridges which … set up a circuit and negotiate ephemeral keys. The TLS conceals …

[PDF][PDF] Novel Techniques for Detecting Tor Botnets

O Fajana - 2023 - researchportal.port.ac.uk
… Thus, a relay operating at the exit node (between Tor and the destination server) cannot see
… is generally easy to use and very stable, helping to bridge the gap between efficiency and …

Towards flexible anonymous networks

F Rochet, J Dejaeghere, T Elahi - Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Tor network consists of relays running several major Tor … on every Tor circuit regardless of
adaptive malicious exit relays injecting … This case study illustrates that deploying ephemeral