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Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature Review
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: Received: 26 July 2021 / Approved: 27 July 2021 / Online: 27 July 2021 (11:22:06 CEST)
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Huete Trujillo, D.L.; Ruiz-Martínez, A. Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature Review. J. Cybersecur. Priv. 2021, 1, 496-518. Huete Trujillo, D.L.; Ruiz-Martínez, A. Tor Hidden Services: A Systematic Literature Review. J. Cybersecur. Priv. 2021, 1, 496-518.
Abstract
Anonymous communications networks were born to protect the privacy of our communications, preventing censorship and traffic analysis. The most famous anonymous communication network is Tor. This anonymous communication network provides some interesting features, among them, we can mention user’s IP location or Tor Hidden Services (THS) as a mechanism to conceal the location of servers, mainly, web servers. THS is an important research field in Tor. However, there is a lack of reviews that sump up main findings and research challenges. In this article we present a systematic literature review that aims to offer a comprehensive view on the research made on Tor Hidden services presenting the state of the art and the different research challenges to be addressed. This review has been developed from a selection of 57 articles and present main findings and advances regarding Tor Hidden Services, limitations found, and future issues to be investigated.
Keywords
Tor; hidden services; onion services; systematic literature review; survey
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Algebra and Number Theory
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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