As Tor's user base has grown, the performance of the Tor network has suffered. This
document describes our current understanding of why Tor is slow, and lays out our options …

Tor is one of the most widely used privacy enhancing technologies for achieving online
anonymity and resisting censorship. While conventional wisdom dictates that the level of …

Tor has become the prime example for anonymous communication systems. With increasing
popularity, though, Tor is also faced with increasing load. In this paper, we tackle one of the …

1 Background A number of performance-related problems have been noted with the current
Tor architecture, resulting in many users restricting their Tor usage to only tasks which are of …

Tor is one of the most popular network anonymization services. With increasing popularity,
however, Tor is also faced with increasing load. Mechanisms for handling congestion and …

Internet anonymity systems, like for instance Tor, are in widespread use today. Technically
they are realized as overlays, ie, they add another instance of routing, forwarding, and …

Tor, the most widely used and well-studied traffic anonymization network in the world, suffers
from limitations in its network diversity and performance. We propose to mitigate both …

Many overlay-based distributed applications employ TCP for the communication between
peer nodes. Typically, the TCP connections of one peer will all share one physical Internet …

Protecting users' privacy is becoming one of the rising issues for the success of future
communications. The Internet in particular, with its open architecture, presents several …

Conventional wisdom dictates that the level of anonymity offered by low latency anonymity
networks increases as the user base grows. However, the most significant obstacle to …