Open AccessAnonymous Connections Based on Onion Routing: A Review and a Visualization Tool
Author(s) -
Abdullah A. AlQahtani,
El-Sayed M. El-Alfy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
procedia computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.334
H-Index - 76
ISSN - 1877-0509
DOI - 10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.040
Subject(s) - computer science , visualization , anonymity , focus (optics) , animation , the internet , graphical user interface , information assurance , routing (electronic design automation) , human–computer interaction , graph drawing , interface (matter) , multimedia , world wide web , information security , computer network , computer security , data mining , physics , computer graphics (images) , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing , optics , programming language
Anonymity of persons and services on the Internet has been an area of growing interest in academia and industry. In this paper, we review work on visualization tools for teaching information security and assurance. We then focus on concepts related to anonymous connections, Onion Routing (OR) protocol, and Tor network. We also present a visualization tool, VISACOR, to demonstrate these concepts. The tool can be used as part of an active and blended instructional strategy for courses related to information security and assurance. We broke down the whole system into several modules that collectively allow the learners to better master the core components, communications, and various modes of operations to achieve anonymity. As a design principle, we aimed to make the tool interactive, comprehensive, and easy to use through animation and user-friendly graphical interface
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