An analysis of anonymizer technology usage

Bingdong Li; Esra Erdin; Mehmet Hadi Güneş; George Bebis; Todd Shipley

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-20305-3_10

An analysis of anonymizer technology usage

Bingdong Li
, Esra Erdin
, Mehmet Hadi Güneş
, George Bebis
, Todd Shipley

University of Nevada, Reno

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Abstract

Anonymity techniques provide legitimate usage such as privacy and freedom of speech, but are also used by cyber criminals to hide themselves. In this paper, we provide usage and geo-location analysis of major anonymization systems, i.e., anonymous proxy servers, remailers, JAP, I2P and Tor. Among these systems, remailers and JAP seem to have minimal usage. We then provide a detailed analysis of Tor system by analyzing traffic through two relays. Our results indicate certain countries utilize Tor network more than others. We also analyze anonymity systems from service perspective by inspecting sources of spam e-mail and peer-to-peer clients in recent data sets. We found that proxy servers are used more than other anonymity techniques in both. We believe this is due to proxies providing basic anonymity with minimal delay compared to other systems that incur higher delays.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Traffic Monitoring and Analysis - Third International Workshop, TMA 2011, Proceedings
Pages	108-121
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20305-3_10
State	Published - 2011
Event	3rd International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, TMA 2011 - Vienna, Austria Duration: 27 Apr 2011 → 27 Apr 2011

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6613 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	3rd International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, TMA 2011
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	27/04/11 → 27/04/11

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SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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Anonymizer
Tor
onion routing

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Li, B., Erdin, E., Güneş, M. H., Bebis, G., & Shipley, T. (2011). An analysis of anonymizer technology usage. In Traffic Monitoring and Analysis - Third International Workshop, TMA 2011, Proceedings (pp. 108-121). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6613 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20305-3_10

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Li, B, Erdin, E, Güneş, MH, Bebis, G & Shipley, T 2011, An analysis of anonymizer technology usage. in Traffic Monitoring and Analysis - Third International Workshop, TMA 2011, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6613 LNCS, pp. 108-121, 3rd International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, TMA 2011, Vienna, Austria, 27/04/11. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20305-3_10

An analysis of anonymizer technology usage. / Li, Bingdong; Erdin, Esra; Güneş, Mehmet Hadi et al.
Traffic Monitoring and Analysis - Third International Workshop, TMA 2011, Proceedings. 2011. p. 108-121 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6613 LNCS).

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