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onion: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

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onion1 CONSTRUCTOnion routingREED ET AL. · 1998

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Network security

Nested encryption peeled layer by layer

In network security, onion routing hides who is talking to whom by wrapping a message in successive layers of encryption, one per relay on its path; each relay peels off just its own layer to learn only the next hop, so no single node sees both the origin and the destination. Reed, Syverson, and Goldschlag's 1998 Anonymous connections and onion routing set out the scheme that later became the basis of Tor. The referent is a layered-encryption construction for anonymity, and it borrows the vegetable only as a metaphor for peelable concentric layers.[1]

Unit
The number of encryption layers and relays a message passes through
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Assessed by the anonymity set size and resistance to traffic-analysis and correlation attacks

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References

  1. Reed, M. G., Syverson, P. F., & Goldschlag, D. M. (1998). Anonymous connections and onion routing. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 16(4), 482–494. https://doi.org/10.1109/49.668972

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