Paul Syverson

TL;DR: A communications primitive, anonymous connections are described that supports bidirectional and near real-time channels that are resistant to both eavesdropping and traffic analysis and support private use of many different Internet services.

TL;DR: The paper introduces an entropy-based approach to the amount of uncertainty a global passive adversary has in determining the actual traffic matrix, or alternatively, the probability that the actual TM has a property of interest.

TL;DR: The results quantify how much the adversary can gain in identifying users by exploiting knowledge of their probabilistic behavior and show that, in the limit as the network gets large, a user u's anonymity is worst either when the other users always choose the destination u is least likely to visit or when theother users always Choose chooses.

TL;DR: This paper designs, implements, and test KIST, a new socket management algorithm that uses real-time kernel information to dynamically compute the amount to write to each socket while considering all writable circuits when scheduling new cells, and finds that it reduces circuit congestion by over 30 percent, reduces network latency by 18 percent, and increases network throughput by nearly 10 percent.

TL;DR: An overview of the eld of anonymous communications, from its establishment in 1981 by David Chaum to today, and key systems are presented categorized according to their underlying principles: semitrusted relays, mix systems, remailers, robust & veriable mixes, and onion routing systems.