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One of the most important issues in peer-to-peer networks is anonymity. The major anonymity for peer-to-peer users concerned with the users' identities and actions which can be revealed by any other members. There are many approaches…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Ehsan Saboori , Shahriar Mohammadi

The use of anonymity-based infrastructures and anonymisers is a plausible solution to mitigate privacy problems on the Internet. Tor (short for The onion router) is a popular low-latency anonymity system that can be installed as an end-user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-08-21 Sergio Castillo-Perez , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

The advancement of quantum computing threatens classical cryptographic methods, necessitating the development of secure quantum key distribution (QKD) solutions for QKD Networks (QKDN). In this paper, a novel key distribution protocol,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Pedro Otero-García , David Pérez-Castro , Manuel Fernández-Veiga , Ana Fernández-Vilas

Based on the principle of onion routing, the Tor network achieves anonymity for its users by relaying user data over a series of intermediate relays. This approach makes congestion control in the network a challenging task. As of today,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Christoph Döpmann , Felix Fiedler , Sergio Lucia , Florian Tschorsch

The advance of quantum computing poses a significant threat to classical cryptography, compromising the security of current encryption schemes such as RSA and ECC. In response to this challenge, two main approaches have emerged: quantum…

In this work, we investigate if statistical privacy can enhance the performance of ORAM mechanisms while providing rigorous privacy guarantees. We propose a formal and rigorous framework for developing ORAM protocols with statistical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Sameer Wagh , Paul Cuff , Prateek Mittal

Internet of underwater things (IoUT) is a technological revolution that could mark a new era for scientific, industrial, and military underwater applications. To mitigate the hostile underwater channel characteristics, this paper hybridizes…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Abdulkadir Celik , Nasir Saeed , Basem Shihada , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

Tor Onion Services are a way to host websites and other internet services anonymously. Onion Services are often used to bypass internet censorship and provide information services to users in oppressive regimes. This paper presents an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-04 Q Misell

Anonymous communication networks have emerged as crucial tools for obfuscating communication pathways and concealing user identities. However, their practical deployments face significant challenges, including susceptibility to artificial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Chao Ge , Wei Yuan , Ge Chen , Yanbin Pan , Yuan Shen

We propose the object-oriented networking (OON) framework, for meeting the generalized interconnection, mobility and technology integration requirements underlining the Internet. In OON, the various objects that need to be accessed through…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-27 Panos Georgatsos , Paris Flegkas , Vasilis Sourlas , Leandros Tassiulas

Advances in manufacturing technologies have enabled System-on-Chip (SoC) designers to integrate an increasing number of cores on a single SoC. Increasing SoC complexity coupled with tight time-to-market deadlines has led to increased…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Subodha Charles , Prabhat Mishra

After several years of research on onion routing, Camenisch and Lysyanskaya, in an attempt at rigorous analysis, defined an ideal functionality in the universal composability model, together with properties that protocols have to meet to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-31 Christiane Kuhn , Martin Beck , Thorsten Strufe

This paper introduces the first two-dimensional XOR-based secret sharing scheme for layered multipath communication networks. We present a construction that guarantees successful message recovery and perfect privacy when an adversary…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Wai Ming Chan , Remi Chou , Taejoon Kim

Onion addresses encode their own public key. They are thus self-authenticating, one of the security and privacy advantages of onion services, which are typically accessed via Tor Browser. Because of the mostly random-looking appearance of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Paul Syverson , Matthew Finkel , Saba Eskandarian , Dan Boneh

Sender anonymity in network communication is an important problem, widely addressed in the literature. Mixnets, combined with onion routing, represent certainly the most concrete and effective approach achieving the above goal. In general,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Francesco Buccafurri , Vincenzo De Angelis , Sara Lazzaro

We present a new, deadlock-free, routing scheme for toroidal interconnection networks, called OutFlank Routing (OFR). OFR is an adaptive strategy which exploits non-minimal links, both in the source and in the destination nodes. When…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Francesco Versaci

Onion routing and mix networks are fundamental concepts to provide users with anonymous access to the Internet. Various corresponding solutions rely on the efficient Sphinx packet format. However, flaws in Sphinx's underlying proof strategy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Philip Scherer , Christiane Weis , Thorsten Strufe

Onion services are anonymous network services that are exposed over the Tor network. In contrast to conventional Internet services, onion services are private, generally not indexed by search engines, and use self-certifying domain names…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Philipp Winter , Anne Edmundson , Laura M. Roberts , Agnieszka Dutkowska-Zuk , Marshini Chetty , Nick Feamster

Tor is the most popular anonymous communication overlay network which hides clients' identities from servers by passing packets through multiple relays. To provide anonymity to both clients and servers, Tor onion services were introduced by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Md Washik Al Azad , Hasniuj Zahan , Sifat Ut Taki , Spyridon Mastorakis

Current low-latency anonymity systems use complex overlay networks to conceal a user's IP address, introducing significant latency and network efficiency penalties compared to normal Internet usage. Rather than obfuscating network identity…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Jody Sankey , Matthew Wright