Personalized Location-Hidden Services

Location-hidden services in Tor enable service providers to offer arbitrary TCP-based services to clients anonymously, i.e. without revealing the IP address of their servers. These hidden services were designed for providing content to the anonymous public.

An alternative way of using hidden services could be to provide a personalized service to a limited set of clients. Though being connected to the public Tor network, these personalized services should only be visible and accessible by authenticated clients. Possible applications are personalized web or file services, and the area of presence-aware communication like instant messaging.

The intention of this project page is to present previous results (listed in reverse chronological order). Please feel free to contact Karsten Loesing for getting more information or providing feedback.

• Seminar thesis on Performance Evaluation of Tor Hidden Services by Christian Wilms. Download
• Talk at PET-Con 2007 in Frankfurt on the Main, Germany. Download
• Rump session talk at PET 2007 in Ottawa, Canada. Download
• Talk at Bamberger-Zwickauer Workshop 2007 in Zwickau, Germany. Download
• Java-based Tor Simulator PuppeTor (work in progress). Browse
• Changes to Tor for Distributed Storage for Tor Hidden Service Descriptors (work in progress). Browse
• Application for Google Summer of Code 2007 on Distributed Storage for Tor Hidden Service Descriptors. Download
• Diploma thesis on Authentication for Tor Hidden Services by Knut Hildebrandt (only available in German). Download
• Conference paper for COMSWARE 2007 in Bangalore, India. Download
• Conference paper for IPDPS 2006 on Rhodes Island, Greece. Download
• Technical report originating from a practical course in summer 2005. Download