Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature Review
Anonymous communications networks were created to protect the privacy of communications, preventing censorship and traffic analysis. The most famous anonymous communication network is Tor. This anonymous communication network provides some interesting features. Among them, we can mention that Tor ca...
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| description | Anonymous communications networks were created to protect the privacy of communications, preventing censorship and traffic analysis. The most famous anonymous communication network is Tor. This anonymous communication network provides some interesting features. Among them, we can mention that Tor can hide a user’s IP address when accessing to a service such as the Web, and it also supports Tor hidden services (THS) (now named onion services) as a mechanism to conceal the server’s IP address, used mainly to provide anonymity to websites. THS is an important research field in Tor. However, there is a lack of reviews that sum up the main findings and research challenges. In this article, we present a systematic literature review that aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the research made on THS by presenting the state-of-the-art and the different research challenges to be addressed. This review has been developed from a selection of 57 articles and presents main findings and advances regarding Tor hidden services, limitations found, and future issues to be investigated. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-07654a9b91804f4c93560fdcca609c9d2023-11-22T13:42:39ZengMDPI AGJournal of Cybersecurity and Privacy2624-800X2021-09-011349651810.3390/jcp1030025Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature ReviewDiana L. Huete Trujillo0Antonio Ruiz-Martínez1Department of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, SpainDepartment of Information and Communications Engineering, University of Murcia, 30100 Murcia, SpainAnonymous communications networks were created to protect the privacy of communications, preventing censorship and traffic analysis. The most famous anonymous communication network is Tor. This anonymous communication network provides some interesting features. Among them, we can mention that Tor can hide a user’s IP address when accessing to a service such as the Web, and it also supports Tor hidden services (THS) (now named onion services) as a mechanism to conceal the server’s IP address, used mainly to provide anonymity to websites. THS is an important research field in Tor. However, there is a lack of reviews that sum up the main findings and research challenges. In this article, we present a systematic literature review that aims to offer a comprehensive overview of the research made on THS by presenting the state-of-the-art and the different research challenges to be addressed. This review has been developed from a selection of 57 articles and presents main findings and advances regarding Tor hidden services, limitations found, and future issues to be investigated.https://www.mdpi.com/2624-800X/1/3/25Torhidden servicesonion servicessystematic literature reviewsurvey |
| spellingShingle | Diana L. Huete Trujillo Antonio Ruiz-Martínez Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature Review Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy Tor hidden services onion services systematic literature review survey |
| title | Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature Review |
| title_full | Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature Review |
| title_fullStr | Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature Review |
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| title_short | Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature Review |
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| topic | Tor hidden services onion services systematic literature review survey |
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