Distributed computer architectures labeled" peer-to-peer" are designed for the sharing of
computer resources (content, storage, CPU cycles) by direct exchange, rather than requiring …

The past two decades have seen a growing interest in methods for anonymous
communication on the Internet, both from the academic community and the general public …

The website fingerprinting attack aims to identify the content (ie, a webpage accessed by a
client) of encrypted and anonymized connections by observing patterns of data flows such …

We provide a first systematic account of opportunities and limitations of anti-money
laundering (AML) in Bitcoin, a decentralized cryptographic currency proliferating on the …

We present Tor, a circuit-based low-latency anonymous communication service. This
second-generation Onion Routing system addresses limitations in the original design by …

Low-latency anonymization networks such as Tor and JAP claim to hide the recipient and
the content of communications from a local observer, ie, an entity that can eavesdrop the …

Ready or not, the digitalization of information has come, and privacy is standing out there,
possibly at stake. Although digital privacy is an identified priority in our society, few …

We describe Freenet, an adaptive peer-to-peer network application that permits the
publication, replication, and retrieval of data while protecting the anonymity of both authors …

Privacy enhancing technologies like OpenSSL, OpenVPN or Tor establish an encrypted
tunnel that enables users to hide content and addresses of requested websites from external …

Tarzan is a peer-to-peer anonymous IP network overlay. Because it provides IP service,
Tarzan is general-purpose and transparent to applications. Organized as a decentralized …