Characterization of Tor Traffic using Time based Features

Arash Habibi Lashkari, Gerard Draper Gil, Mohammad Saiful Islam Mamun, Ali A. Ghorbani

2017

Abstract

Traffic classification has been the topic of many research efforts, but the quick evolution of Internet services and the pervasive use of encryption makes it an open challenge. Encryption is essential in protecting the privacy of Internet users, a key technology used in the different privacy enhancing tools that have appeared in the recent years. Tor is one of the most popular of them, it decouples the sender from the receiver by encrypting the traffic between them, and routing it through a distributed network of servers. In this paper, we present a time analysis on Tor traffic flows, captured between the client and the entry node. We define two scenarios, one to detect Tor traffic flows and the other to detect the application type: Browsing, Chat, Streaming, Mail, Voip, P2P or File Transfer. In addition, with this paper we publish the Tor labelled dataset we generated and used to test our classifiers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Habibi Lashkari A., Draper Gil G., Mamun M. and Ghorbani A. (2017). Characterization of Tor Traffic using Time based Features . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP, ISBN 978-989-758-209-7, pages 253-262. DOI: 10.5220/0006105602530262

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icissp17,
author={Arash Habibi Lashkari and Gerard Draper Gil and Mohammad Saiful Islam Mamun and Ali A. Ghorbani},
title={Characterization of Tor Traffic using Time based Features},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,},
year={2017},
pages={253-262},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006105602530262},
isbn={978-989-758-209-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy - Volume 1: ICISSP,
TI - Characterization of Tor Traffic using Time based Features
SN - 978-989-758-209-7
AU - Habibi Lashkari A.
AU - Draper Gil G.
AU - Mamun M.
AU - Ghorbani A.
PY - 2017
SP - 253
EP - 262
DO - 10.5220/0006105602530262