On 09/30/2016 07:02 AM, Ali Clark wrote:
For my master's thesis this summer I looked into the performance impact from using QUIC instead of TCP/TLS as the relay transport. Results from the experiments look quite promising.
For more details and the thesis, please see my blog post: https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2016/09/29/quux-a-quic-un-multiplexing-of-the-t...
Hi Ali,
Well done, this looks really neat! A couple of questions: 1) Are you looking into publishing your work in a peer-reviewed journal such as CSS, NDSS, PoPETS, or elsewhere? 2) Did you examine the performance improvements for 6-hop onion/hidden service circuits? 3) Tor currently multiplexes circuits over the same TLS connection. This is by design to avoid leaking circuit-level metadata, including the observation of construction and tear-down. The first paragraph on page 21 seems to suggest that QUUX leaks this information. Is this correct, or did you take steps to address this? For that matter, does QUUX leak any additional metadata that could assist with de-anonymization attacks?