A Systematic Survey On Security in Anonymity Networks: Vulnerabilities, Attacks, Defenses, and Formalization

D Chao, D Xu, F Gao, C Zhang… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The importance of safeguarding individuals' privacy rights in online activities is unmistakable
in today's anonymity networks. Since the introduction of Mixnet by Chaum, numerous …

Breaking and (partially) fixing provably secure onion routing

C Kuhn, M Beck, T Strufe - 2020 IEEE Symposium on Security …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
After several years of research on onion routing, Camenisch and Lysyanskaya, in an attempt
at rigorous analysis, defined an ideal functionality in the universal composability model …

Non-interactive anonymous router

E Shi, K Wu - Annual International Conference on the Theory and …, 2021 - Springer
Anonymous routing is one of the most fundamental online privacy problems and has been
studied extensively for decades. Almost all known approaches for anonymous routing (eg …

Strongly anonymous ratcheted key exchange

B Dowling, E Hauck, D Riepel, P Rösler - … on the Theory and Application of …, 2022 - Springer
Anonymity is an (abstract) security goal that is especially important to threatened user
groups. Therefore, widely deployed communication protocols implement various measures …

A theory of composition for differential obliviousness

M Zhou, E Shi, THH Chan, S Maimon - … on the Theory and Applications of …, 2023 - Springer
Differential obliviousness (DO) is a privacy notion which guarantees that the access patterns
of a program satisfies differential privacy. Differential obliviousness was studied in a …

Dynamic security aspects of onion routing

A Melloni, M Stam, Ø Ytrehus - IMA International Conference on …, 2023 - Springer
An anonymous communication network (ACN) is designed to protect the identities of two
parties communicating through it, even if an adversary controls or observes parts of the …

Non-interactive anonymous router with quasi-linear router computation

R Fernando, E Shi, P Soni, N Vanjani… - Theory of Cryptography …, 2023 - Springer
Anonymous routing is an important cryptographic primitive that allows users to communicate
privately on the Internet, without revealing their message contents or their contacts. Until the …

The power of the differentially oblivious shuffle in distributed privacy mechanisms

M Zhou, E Shi - Cryptology ePrint Archive, 2022 - eprint.iacr.org
The shuffle model has been extensively investigated in the distributed differential privacy
(DP) literature. For a class of useful computational tasks, the shuffle model allows us to …

[PDF][PDF] Formal Foundations for Anonymous Communication

C Kuhn - 2022 - scholar.archive.org
With every online action, we leave our digital footprints. These massive amounts of data are
used by companies and governments to derive private information and to manipulate us for …

Towards practical privacy-preserving protocols

D Demmler - it-Information Technology, 2022 - degruyter.com
Protecting users' privacy in digital systems becomes more complex and challenging over
time, as the amount of stored and exchanged data grows steadily and systems become …