Bento: Bringing Network Function Virtualization to Tor
Michael Reininger, Arushi Arora, Stephen Herwig, Nicholas Francino, Christina Garman, Dave Levin · 2020
Tor is a powerful and important tool for providing anonymity and censorship resistance to users around the world. Yet it is surprisingly difficult to deploy new services in Tor---it is largely relegated to proxies and hidden services---or to nimbly react to new forms of attack. Conversely, "non-anonymous" Internet services are thriving like never before because of recent advances in programmable networks, such as Network Function Virtualization (NFV) which provides programmable in-network middleboxes.