Guard Sets in Tor using AS Relationships

The mechanism for picking guards in Tor suffers from security problems like guard fingerprinting and from performance issues. To address these issues, Hayes and Danezis proposed the use of guard sets, in which the Tor system groups all guards into sets, and each client picks one of these sets and us...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Imani Mohsen, Barton Armon, Wright Matthew
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-01-01
Series:Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/popets-2018-0008