Practical anonymous communication on the mobile internet using Tor
Christer Andersson, Andriy Panchenko · 2007
This paper proposes and evaluates several architectural designs for enabling anonymous browsing on the mobile Internet. These architectural designs make use of the Tor network in a mobile setting for the provisioning of anonymity to mobile devices. We compare several architectural designs with respect to their anonymity and performance properties. In particular, we are interested in finding a trade-off between anonymity and performance. We also evaluate the architectural designs against other criteria such as practicality, usability, availability, and trust. We show that the most preferable option - given a powerful mobile device and some optimizations in the Tor protocol - is the option where the Tor client is run directly on the mobile device.