Abstract
Anonymous traffic networks help anonymizing the identity and privacy of the user and their uses. There has been a great amount of interest in the research community for these implementations. Tor network, based on onion routing, has been a big volunteer-driven network and is being used worldwide. Other than Tor, implementations such as Garlic, I2P, Bitcoin, etc., use the principal concept of anonymous network. There has been plenty of implementations which tried to address the issue of anonymity and privacy has been in practice and evolving. The evolution of the decentralized web, zero-knowledge authentications, in a way, advocate the work toward anonymity and privacy. The usage of the Internet is evolving and so the traffic patterns of a user. This chapter will try to address the Idea of Anonymous Traffic Networks (ATN), Types of implementations of ATN, Challenges of ATN, Tools and Technologies around ATN, Relevance of anonymity and privacy of users for ATN, ATN—Projects and Opportunities
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Raje, A., Sinha, S. (2021). Anonymous Traffic Networks. In: Chakraborty, M., Singh, M., Balas, V.E., Mukhopadhyay, I. (eds) The "Essence" of Network Security: An End-to-End Panorama. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 163. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9317-8_11
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