期刊名称：Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies
电子版ISSN：2299-0984
出版年度：2020
卷号：2020
期号：4
页码：24-47
DOI：10.2478/popets-2020-0061
语种：English
出版社：Sciendo
摘要：Organizational networks are vulnerable to trafficanalysis attacks that enable adversaries to infer sensitive information from network traffic — even if encryption is used. Typical anonymous communication networks are tailored to the Internet and are poorly suited for organizational networks. We present PriFi,an anonymous communication protocol for LANs,which protects users against eavesdroppers and provides high-performance traffic-analysis resistance. PriFi builds on Dining Cryptographers networks (DC-nets),but reduces the high communication latency of prior designs via a new client/relay/server architecture, in which a client’s packets remain on their usual network path without additional hops,and in which a set of remote servers assist the anonymization process without adding latency. PriFi also solves the challenge of equivocation attacks,which are not addressed by related work,by encrypting traffic based on communication history. Our evaluation shows that PriFi introduces modest latency overhead (≈100ms for 100 clients) and is compatible with delay-sensitive applications such as Voice-over-IP.
