Examining the Hydra: Simultaneously Shared Links in Tor and the Effects on its Performance

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العنوان: Examining the Hydra: Simultaneously Shared Links in Tor and the Effects on its Performance
المؤلفون: Sebastian Pahl, Florian Adamsky, Daniel Kaiser, Thomas Engel
المصدر: Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies. 2023:268-285
بيانات النشر: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium Advisory Board, 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
مصطلحات موضوعية: General Earth and Planetary Sciences, General Environmental Science
الوصف: Tor is a popular privacy-enhancing technology that allows anonymous communication using onion routing. However, such technologies are only helpful if used; therefore, performance is an important aspect. One of the main performance bottlenecks of Tor is the cross-circuit interference (CCI) problem. Tor multiplexes multiple circuits over a single Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2 connection if they share a path segment (link). Therefore, they have the same congestion window, which can yield unfair bandwidth allocation. However, there has been little work in understanding this problem in more depth. This paper investigates the number of simultaneously shared links in the current Tor network, which are the root cause of CCI. We developed a novel shared links simulator called SALSA to investigate this problem. Our results show that 3.7 % of active links are shared, and the involving Onion Routers (ORs) have the most common bandwidth capabilities. Additionally, we show that the internal circuits and exit policy influence the CCI problem. Furthermore, we model the number of shared links when the demand grows further and show that the number of shared links can go up to 16 %. Finally, we run Shadow simulations with a 25 % down-scaled Tor network and show that a network without shared links is faster.
تدمد: 2299-0984
DOI: 10.56553/popets-2023-0081
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a9e63ccfeb02ffe1bcd6737472e706da
https://doi.org/10.56553/popets-2023-0081
Rights: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi...........a9e63ccfeb02ffe1bcd6737472e706da
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE
الوصف
تدمد:22990984
DOI:10.56553/popets-2023-0081