Usability of anonymous web browsing: an examination of Tor interfaces and deployability

Jeremy Clark, P. V. Oorschot, C. Adams
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Tor is a popular privacy tool designed to help achieve online anonymity by anonymising web traffic. Employing cognitive walkthrough as the primary method, this paper evaluates four competing methods of deploying Tor clients, and a number of software tools designed to be used in conjunction with Tor: Vidalia, Privoxy, Torbutton, and FoxyProxy. It also considers the standalone anonymous browser TorPark. Our results show that none of the deployment options are fully satisfactory from a usability perspective, but we offer suggestions on how to incorporate the best aspects of each tool. As a framework for our usability evaluation, we also provide a set of guidelines for Tor usability compiled and adapted from existing work on usable security and human-computer interaction.
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匿名网页浏览的可用性:对Tor接口和可部署性的检查
Tor是一种流行的隐私工具,旨在通过匿名网络流量来帮助实现在线匿名。本文采用认知演练作为主要方法,评估了部署Tor客户端的四种相互竞争的方法,以及一些设计用于与Tor结合使用的软件工具:Vidalia, Privoxy, Torbutton和FoxyProxy。它还考虑了独立的匿名浏览器TorPark。我们的结果表明,从可用性的角度来看,没有一个部署选项是完全令人满意的,但是我们提供了关于如何结合每个工具的最佳方面的建议。作为可用性评估的框架,我们还提供了一套Tor可用性指南,这些指南是根据可用安全性和人机交互方面的现有工作编译和改编的。
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