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Attacks on Onion Discovery and Remedies via Self-Authenticating Traditional Addresses
Paul Syverson, Matthew Finkel, Saba Eskandarian +1
Onion addresses encode their own public key. They are thus self-authenticating, one of the security and privacy advantages of onion services, which are typically accessed via Tor B…
Towards Modernising Data Collection and Archive for the Tor Network
Iain R. Learmonth, Karsten Loesing
CollecTor is developed by Tor Project's Metrics Team for the purpose of archiving data relating to the public Tor network and applications developed by Tor Project. This report dis…
Identifying and characterizing Sybils in the Tor network
Philipp Winter, Roya Ensafi, Karsten Loesing +1
Being a volunteer-run, distributed anonymity network, Tor is vulnerable to Sybil attacks. Little is known about real-world Sybils in the Tor network, and we lack practical tools an…
Toward an Efficient Website Fingerprinting Defense
Marc Juarez, Mohsen Imani, Mike Perry +2
Website Fingerprinting attacks enable a passive eavesdropper to recover the user's otherwise anonymized web browsing activity by matching the observed traffic with prerecorded web…