Tarzan: A Peer-to-Peer Anonymizing Network Layer

作者：Michael J. Freedman, Robert Morris

全文：http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~mfreed/docs/tarzan-ccs02.pdf

摘要：Tarzan is a peer-to-peer anonymous IP network overlay. Because it provides IP service, Tarzan is general-purpose and transparent to applications. Organized as a decentralized peer-to-peer overlay, Tarzan is fault-tolerant, highly scalable, and easy to manage.

Tarzan achieves its anonymity with layered encryption and multihop routing, much like a Chaumian mix. A message initiator chooses a path of peers pseudo-randomly through a restricted topology in a way that adversaries cannot easily influence. Cover traffic
prevents a global observer from using traffic analysis to identify an initiator. Protocols toward unbiased peer-selection offer new directions for distributing trust among untrusted entities.

Tarzan provides anonymity to either clients or servers, without requiring that both participate. In both cases, Tarzan uses a network address translator (NAT) to bridge between Tarzan hosts and oblivious Internet hosts.

Measurements show that Tarzan imposes minimal overhead over a corresponding non-anonymous overlay route.