AIB-OR: improving onion routing circuit construction using anonymous identity-based cryptosystems.
The rapid growth of Internet applications has made communication anonymity an increasingly important or even indispensable security requirement. Onion routing has been employed as an infrastructure for anonymous communication over a public network, which provides anonymous connections that are stron...
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| author | Changji Wang Dongyuan Shi Xilei Xu |
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| description | The rapid growth of Internet applications has made communication anonymity an increasingly important or even indispensable security requirement. Onion routing has been employed as an infrastructure for anonymous communication over a public network, which provides anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to both eavesdropping and traffic analysis. However, existing onion routing protocols usually exhibit poor performance due to repeated encryption operations. In this paper, we first present an improved anonymous multi-receiver identity-based encryption (AMRIBE) scheme, and an improved identity-based one-way anonymous key agreement (IBOWAKE) protocol. We then propose an efficient onion routing protocol named AIB-OR that provides provable security and strong anonymity. Our main approach is to use our improved AMRIBE scheme and improved IBOWAKE protocol in onion routing circuit construction. Compared with other onion routing protocols, AIB-OR provides high efficiency, scalability, strong anonymity and fault tolerance. Performance measurements from a prototype implementation show that our proposed AIB-OR can achieve high bandwidths and low latencies when deployed over the Internet. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b683c7f1bd0842878863985e0892d3a02022-12-21T19:52:00ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01103e012122610.1371/journal.pone.0121226AIB-OR: improving onion routing circuit construction using anonymous identity-based cryptosystems.Changji WangDongyuan ShiXilei XuThe rapid growth of Internet applications has made communication anonymity an increasingly important or even indispensable security requirement. Onion routing has been employed as an infrastructure for anonymous communication over a public network, which provides anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to both eavesdropping and traffic analysis. However, existing onion routing protocols usually exhibit poor performance due to repeated encryption operations. In this paper, we first present an improved anonymous multi-receiver identity-based encryption (AMRIBE) scheme, and an improved identity-based one-way anonymous key agreement (IBOWAKE) protocol. We then propose an efficient onion routing protocol named AIB-OR that provides provable security and strong anonymity. Our main approach is to use our improved AMRIBE scheme and improved IBOWAKE protocol in onion routing circuit construction. Compared with other onion routing protocols, AIB-OR provides high efficiency, scalability, strong anonymity and fault tolerance. Performance measurements from a prototype implementation show that our proposed AIB-OR can achieve high bandwidths and low latencies when deployed over the Internet.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4376715?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | Changji Wang Dongyuan Shi Xilei Xu AIB-OR: improving onion routing circuit construction using anonymous identity-based cryptosystems. PLoS ONE |
| title | AIB-OR: improving onion routing circuit construction using anonymous identity-based cryptosystems. |
| title_full | AIB-OR: improving onion routing circuit construction using anonymous identity-based cryptosystems. |
| title_fullStr | AIB-OR: improving onion routing circuit construction using anonymous identity-based cryptosystems. |
| title_full_unstemmed | AIB-OR: improving onion routing circuit construction using anonymous identity-based cryptosystems. |
| title_short | AIB-OR: improving onion routing circuit construction using anonymous identity-based cryptosystems. |
| title_sort | aib or improving onion routing circuit construction using anonymous identity based cryptosystems |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4376715?pdf=render |
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