A Survey on: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Secure and Anonymous Communication Platform Utilizing the TOR Network for Enhanced Privacy and Data Protection
Santoshkumar Biradar, Parth Suresh Parsewar, Nilamadhab Mishra, Ankita Atul Galakatu, Sarthak Santosh Gandewar · 2024
This study presents an advanced anonymous messaging platform that integrates Tor network, VPN, and dynamic IP rotation to provide strong privacy protection for users. Tor network onion routing masks user identities with multilayer encryption between distributed nodes, while a VPN adds an encrypted tunnel, improving security by hiding the user’s real IP address. The main innovation is the automatic rotation of the IP address of both the sender and the receiver every 10 seconds, which prevents backtracking and significantly complicates traffic analysis. This dynamic mechanism ensures that even if a user’s communication is intercepted, it becomes impractical to trace it back to its original source or destination. By addressing weaknesses such as Tor network’s potential exit node tracking and risks of VPN One Content Failure, the platform effectively reduces timing attacks and traffic correlation. The design balances latency and performance, ensuring minimal disruption while maintaining high scalability and resilience against adversaries. The combination of these technologies provides a state of the art solution for secure and private anonymous communication. Keywords: anonymous communication, Tor network, VPN, dynamic IP rotation, onion routing,