2013/09/04 by Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Bryan Ford, Corrigan-Gibbs, Henry +1
Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #C.2.0 #Cryptography and Security (cs.CR) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Internet Traffic Analysis and Secure E-voting #K.4.1 #Privacy, Security, and Data Protection
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1309.0958
openalex publication_date 2013/09/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present the design and prototype implementation of ConScript, a framework for using JavaScript to allow casual Web users to participate in an anonymous communication system. When a Web user visits a cooperative Web site, the site serves a JavaScript application that instructs the browser to create and submit "dummy" messages into the anonymity system. Users who want to send non-dummy messages through the anonymity system use a browser plug-in to replace these dummy messages with real messages. Creating such conscripted anonymity sets can increase the anonymity set size available to users of remailer, e-voting, and verifiable shuffle-style anonymity systems. We outline ConScript's architecture, we address a number of potential attacks against ConScript, and we discuss the ethical issues related to deploying such a system. Our implementation results demonstrate the practicality of ConScript: a workstation running our ConScript prototype JavaScript client generates a dummy message for a mix-net in 81 milliseconds and it generates a dummy message for a DoS-resistant DC-net in 156 milliseconds.