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Tor: a brief introRoger DingledineThe Tor Project
https://torproject.org/
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What is Tor?
● Online anonymity 1) software, 2) network, 3) protocol
● Open source, freely available● Community of researchers, developers,
users, and relay operators● Funding from US DoD, Electronic
Frontier Foundation, Voice of America, Google, NLnet, Human Rights Watch, ...
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● 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the research and development of tools for online anonymity and privacy
The Tor Project, Inc.
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Estimated 500,000 daily Tor users
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Threat model:what can the attacker do?
AliceAnonymity network Bob
watch (or be!) Bob!
watch Alice!
Control part of the network!
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Anonymity isn't cryptography: Cryptography just protects contents.
Alice
Bob
“Hi, Bob!”“Hi, Bob!” <gibberish>
attacker
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Anonymity isn't just wishful thinking...“You can't prove it was me!”
“Promise you won't look!”
“Promise you won't remember!”
“Promise you won't tell!”
“I didn't write my name on it!”
“Isn't the Internet already anonymous?”
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Anonymity serves different interests for different user groups.
Anonymity
Private citizens“It's privacy!”
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Anonymity serves different interests for different user groups.
Anonymity
Private citizens
Businesses
“It's network security!”
“It's privacy!”
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Anonymity serves different interests for different user groups.
Anonymity
Private citizens
Governments Businesses
“It's traffic-analysisresistance!”
“It's network security!”
“It's privacy!”
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Anonymity serves different interests for different user groups.
Anonymity
Private citizens
Governments Businesses
“It's traffic-analysisresistance!”
“It's network security!”
“It's privacy!”
Human rightsactivists
“It's reachability!”
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Five pieces to today's talk
● 1) Who uses Tor and why?● 2) The Tor design in a nutshell● 3) Tor and censorship● 4) We have data● 5) Performance questions
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Regular citizens don't want to be watched and tracked.
(the network can track too)
Hostile Bob
Incompetent Bob
Indifferent Bob
“Oops, I lost the logs.” The AOL fiasco
“I sell the logs.”
“Hey, they aren't my secrets.”
Name, address,age, friends,
interests(medical, financial, etc),
unpopular opinions,illegal opinions....
BloggerAlice
8-year-oldAlice
SickAlice
ConsumerAlice
OppressedAlice
....
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Businesses need to keep trade secrets.
AliceCorp
Competitor
Competitor
Compromisednetwork
“Oh, your employees are reading our patents/jobs page/product sheets?”
“Hey, it's Alice! Give her the 'Alice' version!”
“Wanna buy a list of Alice's suppliers?What about her customers?
What about her engineering department'sfavorite search terms?”
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Law enforcement needs anonymity to get the job done.
OfficerAlice
Investigatedsuspect
Stingtarget
Anonymoustips
“Why is alice.localpolice.gov reading my website?”
“Why no, alice.localpolice.gov!I would never sell counterfeits on ebay!”
Witness/informerAlice
“Is my family safe if Igo after these guys?”
OrganizedCrime
“Are they really going to ensuremy anonymity?”
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Governments need anonymityfor their security
Coalitionmember
Alice
Sharednetwork
Defense inDepth
UntrustedISP
“Do I really want to reveal myinternal network topology?”
“What about insiders?”
AgentAlice
“What does FBI Google for?”Compromisedservice
“What will you bid for a list of BaghdadIP addresses that get email from .gov?”
“Somebody in that hotel room justchecked his Navy.mil mail!”
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Journalists and activists need Tor for their personal safety
BlockedAlice
Filteredwebsite
Monitorednetwork
MonitoringISP
“What does the Global Voices website say today?”
“I want to tell people what's going on in my country”
“I think they're watching. I'm not even going to try.”
Activist/Whistleblower
Alice “Where are the bloggers connecting from?”“I run livejournal and track my users”
“Of course I tell China about my users”Monitored
website
“Did you just post to that website?”
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You can't get anonymity on your own: private solutions are ineffective...
OfficerAlice
Investigatedsuspect
...
AliceCorp
Competitor
CitizenAlice
AliceCorpanonymity net
Municipalanonymity net
Alice's smallanonymity net
“Looks like a cop.”
“It's somebody at AliceCorp!”
“One of the 25 userson AliceNet.”
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... so, anonymity loves company!
OfficerAlice
Investigatedsuspect
...
AliceCorp
Competitor
CitizenAlice
Sharedanonymity net
“???”
“???”
“???”
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Yes, bad people need anonymity too.But they are already doing well.
Evil Criminal Alice
Stolen mobilephones
Compromisedbotnet
Open wireless nets
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Current situation: Bad people on the Internet are doing fine
TrojansVirusesExploits
PhishingSpam
BotnetsZombies
EspionageDDoS
Extortion
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The simplest designs use a single relay to hide connections.
Bob2
Bob1
Bob3
Alice2
Alice1
Alice3
Relay
E(Bob3,“X”)
E(Bob1, “Y”)
E(Bob2, “Z”)
“Y”
“Z”
“X”
(example: some commercial proxy providers)
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But a single relay (or eavesdropper!) is a single point of failure.
Bob2
Bob1
Bob3
Alice2
Alice1
Alice3
EvilRelay
E(Bob3,“X”)
E(Bob1, “Y”)
E(Bob2, “Z”)
“Y”
“Z”
“X”
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... or a single point of bypass.
Bob2
Bob1
Bob3
Alice2
Alice1
Alice3
IrrelevantRelay
E(Bob3,“X”)
E(Bob1, “Y”)
E(Bob2, “Z”)
“Y”
“Z”
“X”
Timing analysis bridges all connections through relay ⇒ An attractive fat target
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So, add multiple relays so thatno single one can betray Alice.
BobAlice
R1
R2
R3
R4 R5
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A corrupt first hop can tell that Alice is talking, but not to whom.
BobAlice
R1
R2
R3
R4 R5
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A corrupt final hop can tell that somebody is talking to Bob,
but not who.BobAlice
R1
R2
R3
R4 R5
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Alice makes a session key with R1...And then tunnels to R2...and to R3
BobAlice
R1
R2
R3
R4 R5
Bob2
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What we spend our time on
● Performance and scalability● Maintaining the whole software ecosystem● Blocking-resistance (circumvention)● Basic research on anonymity● Reusability and modularity● Advocacy, education, and trainings around
the world● Metrics, data, and analysis
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Relay versus Discovery● There are two pieces to all these “proxying”
schemes:● a relay component: building circuits, sending
traffic over them, getting the crypto right● a discovery component: learning what relays
are available
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The basic Tor design uses a simple centralized directory protocol.
S2
S1Alice
Trusted directory
Trusted directory
S3
cache
cache
Servers publishself-signeddescriptors.
Authoritiespublish a consensuslist of all descriptors
Alice downloadsconsensus anddescriptors fromanywhere
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Attackers can block users from connecting to the Tor network
● By blocking the directory authorities● By blocking all the relay IP addresses
in the directory● By filtering based on Tor's network
fingerprint● By preventing users from finding the
Tor software
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R4
R2
R1
R3
Bob
Alice
Alice
Alice
Alice
Alice
BlockedUser
BlockedUser
BlockedUser
BlockedUser
BlockedUser
Alice
AliceAlice
Alice
Alice
Alice
Alice
Alice
AliceAlice
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“Bridge” relays● Hundreds of thousands of Tor users, already
self-selected for caring about privacy.● Rather than signing up as a normal relay,
you can sign up as a special “bridge” relay that isn't listed in any directory.
● No need to be an “exit” (so no abuse worries), and you can rate limit if needed
● Integrated into Vidalia (our GUI) so it's easy to offer a bridge or to use a bridge
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Javascript, cookies, history, etc● Javascript refresh attack● Cookies, History, browser window size,
user-agent, language, http auth, ... ● Mostly problems when you toggle from
Tor to non-Tor or back● Mike Perry's Torbutton Firefox
extension tackles many of these
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Flash is dangerous too
● Some apps are bad at obeying their proxy settings.
● Adobe PDF plugin. Flash. Other plugins. Extensions. Especially Windows stuff: did you know that Microsoft Word is a network app?
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Choose how to install it● Tor Browser Bundle: standalone
Windows exe with Tor, Vidalia, Firefox, Torbutton, Polipo, e.g. for USB stick
● Vidalia bundle: Windows/OSX installer● Tor VM: Transparent proxy for
Windows● “Net installer” via our secure updater● Amnesia Linux LiveCD
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Only a piece of the puzzle● Assume the users aren't attacked by
their hardware and software–No spyware installed, no cameras
watching their screens, etc● Users can fetch a genuine copy of Tor?
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Publicity attracts attention
● Many circumvention tools launch with huge media splashes. (The media loves this.)
● But publicity attracts attention of the censors.● We threaten their appearance of control, so
they must respond.● We can control the pace of the arms race.
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How to scale the network?
● The clients need to learn info about the relays they can use. Eventually this means partial network knowledge, and nonclique topology.
● Everybodyarelay, and the anonymity questions that come with that.
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Advocacy and education
● Unending stream of people (e.g. in DC) who make critical policy decisions without much technical background
● Worse, there's a high churn rate● Need to teach policymakers, business
leaders, law enforcement, journalists, ...● Data retention? Internet driver's license?
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Our NSF EAGER
● 1) Invent and deploy new privacypreserving algorithms to collect data about the Tor network, its performance, and its users
● 2) Publish this data, plus tools to analyze it● 3) Figure out what else to measure and do it● 4) Work with other research groups to make
sure they get the data they need to solve the problems Tor actually has
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Six performance problems
● Tor's congestion/flow control is not good● Some users bulk-transfer over Tor● Not enough capacity (run a relay!)● Load balancing isn't right● Not just high latency, but high variability● High directory downloading overhead