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ICCS Tor Overview
Andrew [email protected]
August 4, 2010
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The Tor Project, Inc.
501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the research anddevelopment of technologies for online anonymity and privacy
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What is Tor?
online anonymity software and network
open source, freely available (3-clause BSD license)
active research environment:Rice, UMN, NSF, NRL, Drexel, Waterloo, Cambridge UK, BambergGermany, Boston U, Harvard, MIT, RPI, GaTech
increasingly diverse toolset:Tor, Torbutton, Tor Browser Bundle, TorVM, Incognito LiveCD, TorWeather, Tor auto-responder, Secure Updater, Orbot, TorFox, Torora,Portable Tor, Tor Check, Arm, Nymble, Tor Control, Tor Wall
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What is Tor?
online anonymity software and network
open source, freely available (3-clause BSD license)
active research environment:Rice, UMN, NSF, NRL, Drexel, Waterloo, Cambridge UK, BambergGermany, Boston U, Harvard, MIT, RPI, GaTech
increasingly diverse toolset:Tor, Torbutton, Tor Browser Bundle, TorVM, Incognito LiveCD, TorWeather, Tor auto-responder, Secure Updater, Orbot, TorFox, Torora,Portable Tor, Tor Check, Arm, Nymble, Tor Control, Tor Wall
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What is Tor?
online anonymity software and network
open source, freely available (3-clause BSD license)
active research environment:Rice, UMN, NSF, NRL, Drexel, Waterloo, Cambridge UK, BambergGermany, Boston U, Harvard, MIT, RPI, GaTech
increasingly diverse toolset:Tor, Torbutton, Tor Browser Bundle, TorVM, Incognito LiveCD, TorWeather, Tor auto-responder, Secure Updater, Orbot, TorFox, Torora,Portable Tor, Tor Check, Arm, Nymble, Tor Control, Tor Wall
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What is Tor?
online anonymity software and network
open source, freely available (3-clause BSD license)
active research environment:Rice, UMN, NSF, NRL, Drexel, Waterloo, Cambridge UK, BambergGermany, Boston U, Harvard, MIT, RPI, GaTech
increasingly diverse toolset:Tor, Torbutton, Tor Browser Bundle, TorVM, Incognito LiveCD, TorWeather, Tor auto-responder, Secure Updater, Orbot, TorFox, Torora,Portable Tor, Tor Check, Arm, Nymble, Tor Control, Tor Wall
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estimated 500,000 daily users
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Twitter in Iran: Good.
From http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1905125,00.html
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Twitter in USA: Bad.
from http://gothamist.com/2009/10/05/fbi raids queens home in g20 protes.php
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Who uses Tor?
Normal people
LawEnforcement
Human RightsActivists
Business Execs
Militaries
Abuse Victims
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Tor hides communication patterns by relaying data throughvolunteer servers
Tor Node
Tor Node
Tor Node
Tor Node
Tor NodeTor Node
Tor Node
Tor Node
Tor Network
Web server
Tor user
Encrypted tunnel
Unencrypted TCP
Tor Node
Tor Node
Tor Node
Exit node
Entry nodeMiddle node
Diagram: Robert Watson
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Metrics
Measuring metrics anonymously
NSF grant to find out
Metrics portal:https://www.torproject.org/projects/metrics
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Tor hidden services allow privacy enhanced hosting ofservices
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Operating Systems leak info like a sieve
Applications, networkstacks, plugins, oh my....
some call this ”sharing”
Did you know MicrosoftWord and OpenOfficeWriter are browsers?
http:
//www.decloak.net/ isa fine test
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Operating Systems leak info like a sieve
Applications, networkstacks, plugins, oh my....some call this ”sharing”
Did you know MicrosoftWord and OpenOfficeWriter are browsers?
http:
//www.decloak.net/ isa fine test
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Operating Systems leak info like a sieve
Applications, networkstacks, plugins, oh my....some call this ”sharing”
Did you know MicrosoftWord and OpenOfficeWriter are browsers?
http:
//www.decloak.net/ isa fine test
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Operating Systems leak info like a sieve
Applications, networkstacks, plugins, oh my....some call this ”sharing”
Did you know MicrosoftWord and OpenOfficeWriter are browsers?
http:
//www.decloak.net/ isa fine test
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Mobile Operating Systems
Entirely new set of challenges for something designed to know whereyou are
Orbot: Tor on Android.http://openideals.com/2009/10/22/orbot-proxy/
iphone, maemo, symbian, etc
Tor on Windows CE, http://www.gsmk.de as an example.
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Next steps
Visit https://www.torproject.org/ for more information, links, andideas.
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Credits & Thanks
who uses tor?http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattw/2336507468/siz, MattWestervelt, CC-BY-SA.
danger!, http://flickr.com/photos/hmvh/58185411/sizes/o/,hmvh, CC-BY-SA.
500k, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lukaskracic/334850378/sizes/l/,Luka Skracic, used with permission.
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