Torchestra: Reducing interactive traffic delays over Tor

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 31-42

  Gopal, Deepika ^a   Heninger, Nadia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bittorrent; Privacy; Tor

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CIRCUITS; BITTORRENT; INTERACTIVE TRAFFICS; MEASUREMENT STUDY; ONION ROUTING; POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS; PRIORITIZATION; TCP CONGESTION CONTROL; TCP CONNECTIONS; TOR; TRAFFIC PROCESSING; WEB ACTIVITIES;

DATA PRIVACY; SECURITY OF DATA;

NETWORK SECURITY;

EID: 84869187099     PISSN: 15437221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2381966.2381972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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