Pairing-Based Onion Routing with Improved Forward Secrecy

  • Authors:
  • Aniket Kate;Greg M. Zaverucha;Ian Goldberg

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Waterloo;University of Waterloo;University of Waterloo

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This article presents new protocols for onion routing anonymity networks. We define a provably secure privacy-preserving key agreement scheme in an identity-based infrastructure setting, and use it to design new onion routing circuit constructions. These constructions, based on a user’s selection, offer immediate or eventual forward secrecy at each node in a circuit and require significantly less computation and communication than the telescoping mechanism used by the Tor project. Further, the use of an identity-based infrastructure also leads to a reduction in the required amount of authenticated directory information. Therefore, our constructions provide practical ways to allow onion routing anonymity networks to scale gracefully.