The goal of privacy metrics is to measure the degree of privacy enjoyed by users in a system
and the amount of protection offered by privacy-enhancing technologies. In this way, privacy …

Tor [Dingledine et al. 2004] is the most widely used anonymity network today, serving
millions of users on a daily basis using a growing number of volunteer-run routers. Since its …

Tor is a large and popular overlay network providing both anonymity to its users and a
platform for anonymous communication research. New design proposals and attacks on the …

Content-centric networking--also known as information-centric networking (ICN)--shifts
emphasis from hosts and interfaces (as in today's Internet) to data. Named data becomes …

Existing anonymous communication systems like Tor do not scale well as they require all
users to maintain up-todate information about all available Tor relays in the system. Current …

Decentralized systems are a subset of distributed systems where multiple authorities control
different components and no authority is fully trusted by all. This implies that any component …

The protection of user privacy in the digital age has become an important concern with the
increase in data-driven technologies. These technologies generate large amounts of user …

Flow watermarks are active traffic analysis techniques that help establish a causal
connection between two network flows by content-independent manipulations, eg, altering …

Tor is the most popular low-latency anonymity overlay network for the Internet, protecting the
privacy of hundreds of thousands of people every day. To ensure a high level of security …

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 …