2 papers
cs.NI2016
Characterizing and Avoiding Routing Detours Through Surveillance States
Anne Edmundson, Roya Ensafi, Nick Feamster +1
An increasing number of countries are passing laws that facilitate the mass surveillance of Internet traffic. In response, governments and citizens are increasingly paying attentio…
cs.CR2016
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…