Garlic routing
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Garlic routing[1] is a variant of onion routing that encrypts multiple messages together to make it more difficult[2] for attackers to perform traffic analysis and to increase the speed of data transfer.[3]
Michael J. Freedman defined "garlic routing" as an extension of onion routing, in which multiple messages are bundled together. He called each message a "bulb", whereas I2P calls them "garlic cloves". All messages, each with their own delivery instructions, are exposed at the endpoint.[citation needed] This allows the efficient bundling of an onion routing "reply block" with the original message.[citation needed]
Garlic routing is one of the key factors that distinguishes I2P from Tor and other privacy or encryption networks. The name alludes to the garlic plant, whose structure this protocol resembles. "Garlic routing" was first coined by Michael J. Freedman in Roger Dingledine's Free Haven Master's thesis Section 8.1.1 (June 2000), as derived from Onion Routing.[4] However, the garlic routing implementation in I2P differs from the design proposed by Freedman. The key difference is that garlic routing has unidirectional tunnels, whereas mainstream alternatives like Tor and Mixmaster use bidirectional tunnels.
Garlic Cast: Lightweight and Decentralized Content Sharing
[edit]One potential implementation of the Garlic Routing protocol is shown in the paper, Garlic Cast: Lightweight and Decentralized Anonymous Content Sharing.[5] The idea is to provide a resilient and low latency anonymous content sharing network based on garlic routing. The distinguishing benefit that makes the system different from traditional Tor networks is that it is designed around secure, fast communication. This is made possible by allowing the garlic cast system to use random walks to find proxies in the overlay network and then use the security-enhanced Information Dispersal Algorithm to deliver content in a secure and fast manner.[5] Lastly, the garlic cast network is designed to be highly resistant to a wide range of attacks while still providing a high level of anonymity.[6]
List of P2P applications that use garlic routing
[edit]- I2P, an anonymizing overlay network which allows applications to run on top of it (open source, written in Java)
- Perfect Dark, a P2P client which relies on a mixnet and distributed datastore to provide anonymity (freeware, written for Windows)
See also
[edit]- Anonymous remailer
- Key-based routing
- Mix network
- Mixmaster anonymous remailer
- Public-key cryptography
References
[edit]- ^ "How to Browse the Internet Anonymously with Garlic Routing - Make Tech Easier". 21 August 2019.
- ^ B, David (January 27, 2014). "Common Darknet Weaknesses: An Overview of Attack Strategies".
- ^ Zantour, Bassam; Haraty, Ramzi A. (2011). "I2P Data Communication System". Proceedings of ICN 2011: The Tenth International Conference on Networks: 401–409.
- ^ "Garlic Routing - I2P". geti2p.net.
- ^ a b "Penn State WebAccess Secure Login". IEEE. Retrieved 2017-10-04.
- ^ Qian, Chen; Shi, Junjie; Yu, Zihao; Yu, Ye; Zhong, Sheng (2016). "Garlic Cast: Lightweight and Decentralized Anonymous Content Sharing". 2016 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS). pp. 216–223. doi:10.1109/ICPADS.2016.0037. ISBN 978-1-5090-4457-3. S2CID 5544561.