Attacks on Anonymous Systems
Mohan Balaji Areti · 2012
Onion routing provides anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to both eavesdropping and traffic analysis. Internet applications can use these anonymous connections by means of proxies. The proxies may also make communication anonymous by removing identifying information from the data stream. Onion Routing program is made up of projects researching, designing, building, and analyzing anonymous communications systems. Onion Routing prevents the transport medium from knowing who is communicating with whom.the network knows only that communication is taking place. Though it is the strong enough for the successful anonymous communication, there are few weakness in it which leads to attacks on anonymity. In this paper, I discuss about onion routing protocol and anonymous networks (ex: TOR) and various types of attacks in them.