Author: phobos Date: 2012-12-06 05:21:37 +0000 (Thu, 06 Dec 2012) New Revision: 25935

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+\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/2llg3ts.jpg} +\end{center} + +# Definitions: Anonymity + + - a set of all possible subjects + - state of not being identifiable within anonymity set + +# Definitions: Unlinkability + + - unlinkability of two or more items of interest from the adversary's perspective + - items can be messages, people, events, actions, etc + +# Definitions: Unobservability + + - state of items of interest being indistinguishable from any items of interest + +# Definitions: Pseudonymity + + - identifiers of sets of subjects + +# Definitions: Traffic Analysis + + - The who, what, when of traffic + - Think of the post office + +# Definitions: Steganography + + - the art and science of writing hidden messages in such a way that no one, apart from the sender and intended recipient, suspects the existence of the message, a form of security through obscurity. -- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography) + - alice or bob are talking, but to whom? + +# Definitions: Cryptography + - protecting content in transit + - does nothing to hide the traffic of items of interest + +# What data to protect? + + - bits of info which put together deanonymize you + - Names of individuals + - location address (street, IP address, zipcode, etc) + - operating system info + - language info + - amount of data sent + - amount of data received + - traffic timing (heartbeats) + +# Anonymity Loves Company + - make the set of users as large and coherent as possible to create a large anonymity set + +# Attacking Anonymity: Timing Analysis + - An attack used to analyze the time properties of data transfer between items of interest. + - When was data sent? + - How much was data sent? + - How long did it take to send the data? + - When was data received? + - wireshark demo + +# Attacking Anonymity: Timing Analysis + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/iograph-torproject-website.png} +\end{center} + +# Attacking Anonymity: Statistical Disclosure + + - Also called an intersection attack + - trying to identify mutually disjoint sets of recipients + - exponential time involved per number of messages to be analyzed + +# Attacking Anonymity: Tagging + + - tagging (make one item of interest unique) + +# Attacking Anonymity: Traffic Confirmation + + - who sends, how often, and when + - etherape demo + +# Centralized Systems + + - cheap, easy, ubiquitous + - PPTP, IPSec, SSL, SSH, XMPP common protocols + +# Proxy and VPN Servers + - proxy server works on your behalf + - VPN is virtual private network + - proxy for the network layers (layers 2 or 3 of OSI model) + +# Proxy and VPN Servers + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/single_hop_relay.jpg} +\end{center} + +# Trusting the provider + + - trusting the provider + - promises, contracts, mistakes + - some may filter or clean data before passing on to destination + +# Trusting the provider + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/evil_single_hop_relay.jpg} +\end{center} + +# Irrelevant provider + + - Single machine, or cluster of machines, are connected to a network + - If the proxy provider won't cooperate, use the network around it. + +# Irrelevant provider + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/data_snooping_single_hop_relay.jpg} +\end{center} + +# Decentralized Systems + +## Mix Networks + - cascades (JonDos/JonDonym) + - routes (tor) + +## Similar Routing networks + - I2P - Garlic routing, closed network, anonymity and reputation + - Freenet - closed network, anonymity, distributed file storage and sharing + - GNUnet - closed network, anonymity, distributed file storage and sharing + +# Break? + +Anyone need a bio-break for 10 minutes? + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/wwwhatranorg} +\end{center} + +# What is Tor? + + - online anonymity software and network + - open source, freely available (3-clause BSD license) + - active research environment: + +Drexel, Univ of Waterloo, Georgia Tech, Princeton, Boston University, University College London, Univ of Minnesota, National Science Foundation, Naval Research Labs, Cambridge UK, Bamberg Germany, MIT... + + - increasingly diverse toolset: + +Tor, Tor Browser Bundle, Tails Live System, Orbot/OrWeb, Tor Weather, Tor auto-responder, Secure Updater, Arm, Tor2Web, and so on. + +# Who uses Tor? + +\parbox{8cm}{\sloppy \setbeamercolor{background}[\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/anonymousman}} +\parbox{3cm}{\sloppy +\begin{flushleft} +\begin{itemize} +\begin{small} +\item Normal people +\item Journalists +\item Law Enforcement +\item Human Rights Activists +\item Business Execs +\item Militaries +\item Abuse Victims +\end{small} +\end{itemize} +\end{flushleft} +} + +# How many people use Tor? + +estimated 500k to 900k daily users + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/huge-crowd} +\end{center} + +# How does Tor work? + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/tor-network} +\end{center} + +# How does Tor work? + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/tor-safe-selection} +\end{center} + +# How does Tor work? + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/tor-safe-path} +\end{center} + +# How does Tor work? + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/tor-keys1} +\end{center} + +# Attacks on Tor + + - First hop can learn your IP address. + - Last hop can watch your traffic. + +# Attacks on Tor + + - Adversary can block all Tor nodes by IP address and TCP port + - our answer is to use non-public relays called Bridges + - Adversary can legally harass last hop; DMCA, Child Abuse Materials, Threats, etc + - Adversary can run relays, use network to restrict access to other relays + +# Attacks on Tor + + - Deep Packet Inspection + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/procera-evolved-dpi} +\end{center} + +# Attacks on Tor + +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/iran-ssl-dpi-26-seconds-to-death} + +# The Future: Usability + + Who are our users? What do they understand about anonymity, Tor, and privacy online? + Can we guide them to make smarter decisions? + How do we educate them before they start? + +# The Future: Obfsproxy & Pluggable Transports + + Obfuscating proxy for network traffic + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/obfsproxy_diagram.png} +\end{center} + +# The Future: Scaling + + Why not 10,000 relays? Why not 1 million? 10 million? + Need privacy-preserving Scalable Distributed Hash Table designs + +# The Future: IPv6 + + Basic support for IPv6 clients and relays works now. + Need support for IPv6 destinations and pure IPv6 relays + +# The Future: UDP + + Tor only transports TCP packets now. + This limits usable applications + Need to support real-time video and audio chats over Tor. + +# Thanks! + +\begin{center} +\includegraphics[keepaspectratio,width=\textwidth, height=.8\textheight]{images/thankyou_img} +\end{center} + +Visit [https://www.torproject.org%5D(https://www.torproject.org) for more information, links, and ideas.

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