Deploying Low-Latency Anonymity: Design Challenges and Social Factors

  • Authors:
  • Roger Dingledine;Nick Mathewson;Paul Syverson

  • Affiliations:
  • The Tor Project;The Tor Project;US Naval Research Laboratory

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Tor (the Onion Routing) is an open source, distributed, low-latency anonymity network. This article examines how Tor works, the underlying design philosophy, and some of the challenges in building, deploying, and sustaining a network for anonymous communications.