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@inproceedings{1791750, author = {Hellebrandt, Lukáš and Homoliak, Ivan and Malinka, Kamil and Hanáček, Petr}, address = {NEW YORK}, booktitle = {2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY (ICBC)}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751340}, language = {eng}, location = {NEW YORK}, pages = {29-32}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {Increasing Trust in Tor Node List Using Blockchain}, year = {2019} }
TY - JOUR ID - 1791750 AU - Hellebrandt, Lukáš - Homoliak, Ivan - Malinka, Kamil - Hanáček, Petr PY - 2019 TI - Increasing Trust in Tor Node List Using Blockchain PB - IEEE CY - NEW YORK N2 - Tor is a low-latency free anonymization network based on onion routing. In Tor, directory servers maintain a list of all nodes. It is, however, possible for a powerful adversary (e.g., law enforcement agencies) to seize or compromise enough directory servers and thus forge that list. Therefore, clients that obtained such a forged list of nodes can be effectively deanonymized. As a countermeasure, we propose to utilize a permissioned blockchain with a single voting committee that is privately "elected" by a verifiable random function (VRF). Since the blockchain provides us with integrity guarantees by design, we increase trust in the directory servers by decentralizing management of Tor nodes present in the shared list. We apply skiplist as an optimization reducing a validation overhead of newly joined nodes and clients. The proposed approach has only a small performance impact on the existing Tor infrastructure. ER -
HELLEBRANDT, Lukáš, Ivan HOMOLIAK, Kamil MALINKA and Petr HANÁČEK. Increasing Trust in Tor Node List Using Blockchain. In \textit{2019 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BLOCKCHAIN AND CRYPTOCURRENCY (ICBC)}. NEW YORK: IEEE, 2019, p.~29-32. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BLOC.2019.8751340.
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