Ferris wheel: A ring based onion circuit for hidden services

  • Authors:
  • Hakem Beitollahi;Geert Deconinck

  • Affiliations:
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Electrical Engineering Department, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, Leuven, Belgium;Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Electrical Engineering Department, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, Leuven, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Computer Communications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The capability that a server can hide its location while offering various kinds of services to its clients is called hidden services or location-hiding. Almost previous low-latency anonymous communication systems such as Tor, MorphMix, etc., that can be used to implement hidden services are vulnerable against end-to-end traffic analysis attack. This paper introduces Ferris wheel, a novel architecture for implementing hidden services which is robust against end-to-end traffic analysis attack. Moreover, our scheme is more robust against various traffic analysis attacks than previous low-latency anonymous communication architectures.