Improving the Tor traffic distribution with circuit switching method

Kale, Timothy Girry; Ohzahata, Satoshi; Wu, Celimuge; Kato, Toshihiko

doi:10.1109/hpsr.2016.7525647

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“…The Tor Project deals with increasing the level of privacy afforded to a user [1][2] and designing new versions of the Tor protocol that the network uses [3] [4]. The hope is to increase overall throughput and speed as well as eliminate DNS leaks and other potential privacy leaks through the use of advanced data mining [5].…”

Section: A Current Work Regarding Tor Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Portable tor router: Easily enabling web privacy for consumers

Barberis

Radosevich

Emery

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE)

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On-line privacy is of major public concern. Unfortunately, for the average consumer, there is no simple mechanism to browse the Internet privately on multiple devices. Most available Internet privacy mechanisms are either expensive, not readily available, untrusted, or simply provide trivial information masking. We propose that the simplest, most effective and inexpensive way of gaining privacy, without sacrificing unnecessary amounts of functionality and speed, is to mask the user's IP address while also encrypting all data. We hypothesized that the Tor protocol is aptly suited to address these needs. With this in mind we implemented a Tor router using a single board computer and the open-source Tor protocol code. We found that our proposed solution was able to meet five of our six goals soon after its implementation: cost effectiveness, immediacy of privacy, simplicity of use, ease of execution, and unimpaired functionality. Our final criterion of speed was sacrificed for greater privacy but it did not fall so low as to impair day-to-day functionality. With a total cost of roughly $100.00 USD and a speed cap of around 2 Megabits per second we were able to meet our goal of an affordable, convenient, and usable solution to increased on-line privacy for the average consumer.

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Section: A Current Work Regarding Tor Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%