Fair and Accountable Anonymity for the Tor Network

Jesus Diaz, David Arroyo, Francisco B. Rodriguez

2017

Abstract

The balance between security and privacy is a must for the adequate construction of e-democracy. For such a goal, information and communication networks should not be hardened at the cost of lessening privacy protection mechanisms. In addition, the deployment of such mechanisms should not pave the way for performing malicious activities. This call for security-privacy trade-offs is specially relevant in the general scope of the anonymizing networks, and in the specific case of the Tor network. Indeed, general security attacks are based on anonymous network access, which makes service providers to ban this kind of connections even when they are initiated by legitimate users. In this communication we apply group and blind signatures to address this dilemma, allowing the incorporation of access controls to the Tor network. Our procedure is enhanced by a protocol for denouncing illegitimate actions without eroding users’ privacy.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Diaz J., Arroyo D. and Rodriguez F. (2017). Fair and Accountable Anonymity for the Tor Network . In Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-259-2, pages 560-565. DOI: 10.5220/0006474805600565

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt17,
author={Jesus Diaz and David Arroyo and Francisco B. Rodriguez},
title={Fair and Accountable Anonymity for the Tor Network},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={560-565},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006474805600565},
isbn={978-989-758-259-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 6: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2017)
TI - Fair and Accountable Anonymity for the Tor Network
SN - 978-989-758-259-2
AU - Diaz J.
AU - Arroyo D.
AU - Rodriguez F.
PY - 2017
SP - 560
EP - 565
DO - 10.5220/0006474805600565