|Title||More Anonymous Onion Routing Through Trust|
|Publication Type||Conference Paper|
|Year of Publication||2009|
|Authors||Johnson, A., and P. Syverson|
|Conference Name||22nd IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF 2009)|
We consider using trust information to improve the security of onion-routing networks. In particular, we introduce a model of trust in network nodes and use it to design path-selection strategies that minimize the probability that the adversary can successfully perform a correlation attack. We first describe the general case in which onion routers can be assigned arbitrary levels of trust. Selecting a strategy can be formulated in a straightforward way as a linear program, but it is exponential in size. We thus analyze a natural simplification of path selection for this case. More importantly, however, when choosing routes in practice, only a very coarse assessment of trust in specific onion routers is likely to be feasible. Therefore, we focus next on the special case in which there are only two trust levels. For this more practical case we identify three optimal route-selection strategies such that at least one is optimal, depending on the trust levels of the two classes, their size, and the reach of the adversary. This can yield practical input into routing decisions . We set out the relevant parameters and choices for making such decisions.
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