Compiuter Engineering: Computer Security, Computer Networks.

Anonymization of web traffic is not a part of the http specification, however, it can be achieved using a certain extra tool. Significant deceleration of anonymized traffic can be controlled as this article suggests. The study focuses on measuring the response time, transmission speed and latency and proposing the way how to control it. This study focuses on TOR because other tools (I2P, JAP) provide worse service. Sets of 30 web pages and 14 file locations have been formed and the latency, response time and transmission speed during the page or file download have been measured repeatedly both with TOR active in various configurations and without TOR. The main result presented here comprises several ways how to improve the TOR anonymization efficiency and the proposal for its automatic control. In spite of the fact that efficiency still remains too low compared to normal web traffic for ordinary use, its automatic control could make TOR a useful tool in some special cases.