Exploring the potential benefits of expanded rate limiting in Tor: Slow and steady wins the race with Tortoise

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 207-216

  Moore, W Brad ^a   Wacek, Chris ^a   Sherr, Micah ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Performance; Tor

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; BANDWIDTH CAPACITY; EMULATION RESULT; FILE SHARING; NETWORK CAPACITY; PERFORMANCE; POOR PERFORMANCE; POTENTIAL BENEFITS; RATE LIMITING; TOR; WEB USERS;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; SECURITY SYSTEMS;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84855656395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2076732.2076762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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