An architecture for an anonymity network

It is difficult to design a system that provides anonymity for delay-sensitive services such as Web browsing. Existing systems are either not resistant against sophisticated attacks or they achieve their level of anonymity at the cost of a high bandwidth overhead. In addition, these systems do not meet all of our requirements. In this paper, we present the architecture of our prototype implementation of an anonymity network. Our system is trustworthy, fair, stable, modular, and bases on the well studied and accepted secure sockets layer protocol. With this system, we want to derive quantitative results about the tradeoff between anonymity and performance penalty. We will then extend our anonymity network such that it provides high resistance against various attacks while minimizing its bandwidth overhead.