Dark Web is one of the most challenging and untraceable mediums adopted by the cyber
criminals, terrorists, and state-sponsored spies to fulfil their illicit motives. Cyber-crimes …

Anonymity networks are becoming increasingly popular in today's online world as more
users attempt to safeguard their online privacy. Tor is currently the most popular anonymity …

We present the first analysis of the popular Tor anonymity network that indicates the security
of typical users against reasonably realistic adversaries in the Tor network or in the …

The Tor network is a widely used system for anonymous communication. However, Tor is
known to be vulnerable to attackers who can observe traffic at both ends of the …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) envisions a world covered with billions of smart,
interacting things capable of offering all sorts of services to near and remote entities. The …

Motivated by recent revelations of widespread state surveillance of personal communication,
many solutions now claim to offer secure and private messaging. This includes both a large …

This paper sheds light on crucial weaknesses in the design of hidden services that allow us
to break the anonymity of hidden service clients and operators passively. In particular, we …

Tor is a large and popular overlay network providing both anonymity to its users and a
platform for anonymous communication research. New design proposals and attacks on the …

Tor is a distributed onion-routing network used for achieving anonymity and resisting
censorship online. Because of Tor's growing popularity, it is attracting increasingly larger …

In this paper, we explore traffic analysis attacks on Tor that are conducted solely with middle
relays rather than with relays from the entry or exit positions. We create a methodology to …