Enhancing Security in Anonymizing Networks
S. Vinoth Kumar · 2012
Anonymous networks allow anyone to visit the public areas of the network. Here users access the Internet services through a series of routers. This hides the user’s identities and IP address from the server. This may be an advantage for the misbehaving users to destroy popular websites. To avoid such activities, servers may try to block the misbehaving user. But it is not possible in case of anonymous networks. Since the servers are not aware of the user’s identities or IP address it is not possible to block the particular misbehaving user. In such cases servers may block the entire network which also affects normal behaving users. To overcome this problem, a system is designed in which servers can blacklist the misbehaving users without compromising their anonymity. The proposed system accurately finds the misbehaving users and also maintains the blacklisted users details in the server. In this system servers can blacklist users for any reason and also the privacy of blacklisted users is maintained.