Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2015/338

Cryptanalysis of a fair anonymity for the tor network

Amadou Moctar Kane

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to present an attack upon the protocol of Diaz et al. \cite{Diaz}, which goal is to introduce a fair anonymity in the Tor network. This attack allows an attacker to impersonate Tor users with the complicity of an exit node.

Category / Keywords: Cryptography, Tor, privacy, anonymity, group signature.

Date: received 14 Apr 2015, last revised 16 Apr 2015

Contact author: amadou1 at gmail com

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Version: 20150419:185856 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2015/338

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