Evaluating HORNET

Anonymity services are an increasingly important platform for anonymity and integrity in today’s society. HORNET anonymity service is a system that enables high-speed anonymous channels by exploiting next-generation network architectures. The purpose of this thesis was to contribute more work on HORNET to the scientific community and to increase the understanding of its performance and scalability. The goal was to identify the system aspects that primarily limit HORNET's scalability and performance. To achieve the goal, a profiling program was used in a quantitative study to estimate the execution time of the different HORNET phases. The results show that HORNET's setup phase primarily limits the scalability of the system, but that it does not affect its performance. The results also show that HORNET's data phase is efficient and scale well.

Keywords: Anonymity, onion routing, performance, network layer