MODELING AND PREVENTION OF CELL COUNTING BASED ATTACKS ON TOR

Mamatha.Ch, Manoj Kumar.G

Abstract: Many anonymous networks came into existence. For instance Tor allows its users to gain access to services anonymously. This network causes most of the attacks as the adversaries can hide their identity and make attacks successfully from a remote place. By making a new attack on Tor can find the vulnerability of the Tor. Ling et al. presented a new cell counting mechanism for making an attack on Tor. In this paper we implemented a custom simulator that models a Tor and demonstrates the cell counting attack by simulating nodes like sender, receiver, onion router and attacker. The experimental results revealed that the proposed attack mechanism is effective.

Keywords: Anonymous network, Tor, attacker model, cell counting

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2013.0210059