QuicTor: Enhancing Tor for Real-Time Communication Using QUIC Transport Protocol

摘要: In the past decades, internet has emerged as fastest way to access information. However, this revolutionary information age comes with its own set of challenges. The privacy Internet users is at increasing risk advances in surveillance techniques. Users’ online behavior, activities, and even personal are being tracked by ISPs major tech companies. response need for preserving protecting users, anonymity networks were developed. Tor network a low-latency that gained quite good reputation over years adopted thousands users. With great attention Tor’s getting, original design was proven have performance limiting issues. motivation addressing limitation Tor, we present QuicTor, datagram-based solve transport-layer issue. We evaluated QuicTor comparison vanilla well other performance-enhancing proposals. achieved significant improvements interactive applications streaming applications. Running protocol entails careful security analysis. article, assess behavior under side-channel attacks aiming de-anonymize clients. show brought do not reduce clients investigated types attacks.