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Towards an Analysis of Onion Routing Security

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This paper presents a security analysis of Onion Routing, an application independent infrastructure for traffic-analysis-resistant and anonymous Internet connections. It also includes an overview of the current system design, definitions of security goals and new adversary models.

Work by Carl Landwehr was primarily performed while employed at the Naval Research Laboratory.

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  1. Center for High Assurance Computer Systems, Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5540, DC 20375, Washington, USA

    Paul Syverson & Michael Reed

  2. Information and Computer Science Dept., University of California, CA 92697-3425, Irvine, USA

    Gene Tsudik

  3. Mitretek Systems, Inc., 7525 Colshire Drive, VA 22102, McLean, USA

    Carl Landwehr

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  1. Institut Informatik, FU Berlin, Takustr. 9, 14195, Berlin, Germany

    Hannes Federrath

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Syverson, P., Tsudik, G., Reed, M., Landwehr, C. (2001). Towards an Analysis of Onion Routing Security. In: Federrath, H. (eds) Designing Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2009. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44702-4_6

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