
TL;DR
This paper introduces Optical Onion Routing, a novel privacy-preserving routing technique for optical networks inspired by internet onion routing, utilizing layered encryption with optical components to ensure perfect privacy and security.
Contribution
It proposes a new optical anonymization node architecture and encryption methods, including optical XOR and LFSR-based key generation, tailored for optical networks.
Findings
Proves formal privacy and security of the proposed optical onion routing.
Designs a practical optical anonymization system with layered encryption.
Provides foundational techniques for privacy in future optical networks.
Abstract
As more and more data is transmitted in the configurable optical layer, whereby all optical switches forward packets without electronic layers involved, we envision privacy as the intrinsic property of future optical networks. In this paper, we propose Optical Onion Routing (OOR) routing and forwarding techniques, inspired by the onion routing in the Internet layer, the best known realization of anonymous communication today, but designed with specific features innate to optical networks. We propose to design the optical anonymization network system with a new optical anonymization node architecture, including the optical components and their electronic counterparts to realize layered encryption. We propose modification to the secret key generation using Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR), able to utilize different primitive irreducible polynomials, and the usage optical XOR…
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
