AN EFFICIENT METHODOLOGY TO LIMIT PATH LENGTH GUARANTEEING ANONYMITY IN OVERLAY NETWORKS

Juan Pedro Muñoz-Gea, Josemaria Malgosa-Sanahuja, Pilar Manzanares-Lopez, Juan Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse, Joan Garcia-Haro

2008

Abstract

An alternative to guarantee anonymity in overlay networks may be achieved by building a multi-hop path between the origin and the destination. However, one hop in the overlay network can consist of multiple Internet Protocol (IP) hops. Therefore, the length of the overlay multi-hop path must be reduced in order to maintain a good balance between the cost and the benefit provided by the anonymity facility. Unfortunately, the simple Time-To-Live (TTL) algorithm cannot be directly applied here since its use could reveal valuable information to break anonymity. In this paper, a new mechanism which reduces the length of the overlay multi-hop paths is presented. The anonymity level is evaluated by means of simulation and good results are reported.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pedro Muñoz-Gea J., Malgosa-Sanahuja J., Manzanares-Lopez P., Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse J. and Garcia-Haro J. (2008). AN EFFICIENT METHODOLOGY TO LIMIT PATH LENGTH GUARANTEEING ANONYMITY IN OVERLAY NETWORKS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-59-3, pages 205-208. DOI: 10.5220/0001916202050208

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt08,
author={Juan Pedro Muñoz-Gea and Josemaria Malgosa-Sanahuja and Pilar Manzanares-Lopez and Juan Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse and Joan Garcia-Haro},
title={AN EFFICIENT METHODOLOGY TO LIMIT PATH LENGTH GUARANTEEING ANONYMITY IN OVERLAY NETWORKS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={205-208},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001916202050208},
isbn={978-989-8111-59-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2008)
TI - AN EFFICIENT METHODOLOGY TO LIMIT PATH LENGTH GUARANTEEING ANONYMITY IN OVERLAY NETWORKS
SN - 978-989-8111-59-3
AU - Pedro Muñoz-Gea J.
AU - Malgosa-Sanahuja J.
AU - Manzanares-Lopez P.
AU - Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse J.
AU - Garcia-Haro J.
PY - 2008
SP - 205
EP - 208
DO - 10.5220/0001916202050208