The Internet has undergone dramatic changes in the past 2 decades and now forms a global
communication platform that billions of users rely on for their daily activities. While this …

Flow correlation is the core technique used in a multitude of deanonymization attacks on
Tor. Despite the importance of flow correlation attacks on Tor, existing flow correlation …

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 …

End-to-end flow correlation attacks are among the oldest known attacks on low-latency
anonymity networks, and are treated as a core primitive for traffic analysis of Tor. However …

Tor is vulnerable to network-level adversaries who can observe both ends of the
communication to deanonymize users. Recent work has shown that Tor is susceptible to the …

Safeguarding blockchain peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is more critical than ever in light of
recent network attacks. Bitcoin has been successfully handling traditional Sybil and eclipse …

We present ShorTor, a protocol for reducing latency on the Tor network. ShorTor uses multi-
hop overlay routing, a technique typically employed by content delivery networks, to …

Tor is a popular low-latency anonymous communication system that focuses on usability
and performance: a faster network will attract more users, which in turn will improve the …

Mix networks (mixnets) enhance anonymity at the cost of increased end-to-end latency,
deterring clients from adopting mixnets for web browsing or instant messaging. This often …

Much research has investigated improving the security and performance of Tor by having
Tor clients choose paths through the network in a way that depends on the client's location …