HORNET: High-speed Onion Routing at the Network Layer

Presented at DeepSec 2015 „DeepSec No. 9“, Nov. 20, 2015, 5:40 p.m. (50 minutes).

We present HORNET, a system that enables high-speed end-to-end anonymous channels by leveraging next generation network architectures. HORNET is designed as a low-latency onion routing system that operates at the network layer thus enabling a wide range of applications. Our system uses only symmetric cryptography for data forwarding yet requires no per-flow state on intermediate nodes. This design enables HORNET nodes to process anonymous traffic at over 93 Gb/s. HORNET can also scale as required, adding minimal processing overhead per additional anonymous channel. We discuss design and implementation details, as well as a performance and security evaluation.


Presenters:

  • Chen Chen - Carnegie Mellon University / ETH Zurich
    Chen Chen is fifth-year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University. He obtained his B.E. and B.S. degrees from Department of Automation and Department of Applied Math in Tsinghua University. He obtained his M.S. degree from Department of Electric Computer Engineering. He now works with Professor Adrian Perrig at ETH Zurich. His research interests include trust computing, virtualization, anonymity, and future Internet architectures.

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