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Alfonso Rodriguez Barredo-Valenzuela
dblp:390/3206
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0000-0001-8312-6837ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Network security · 100% | |
| Computer networks
1 paper |
Network measurement and analytics · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network measurement and analytics
topology measurement |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Snorkeling in Dark Waters: A Longitudinal Surface Exploration of Unique Tor Hidden Services · IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 2025 |
Network security
anonymity networks |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Snorkeling in Dark Waters: A Longitudinal Surface Exploration of Unique Tor Hidden Services · IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 2025 |
Network security › anonymity networks › tor
tor hidden services |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Snorkeling in Dark Waters: A Longitudinal Surface Exploration of Unique Tor Hidden Services · IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
web crawling · 1.7machine learning classifier · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Snorkeling in Dark Waters: A Longitudinal Surface Exploration of Unique Tor Hidden ServicesabstractThe Onion Router (Tor) is a controversial network whose utility is constantly under scrutiny. On the one hand, it allows for anonymous interaction and cooperation of users seeking untraceable navigation on the Internet. This freedom also attracts criminals who aim to thwart law enforcement investigations, e.g., trading illegal products or services such as drugs or weapons. Tor allows delivering content without revealing the actual hosting address, by means of.onion (or hidden) services. Different from regular domains, these services can not be resolved by traditional name services, are not indexed by regular search engines, and they frequently change. This generates uncertainty about the extent and size of the Tor network and the type of content offered. In this work, we present a large-scale analysis of the Tor Network. We leverage our crawler, dubbed Mimir, which automatically collects and visits content linked within the pages to collect a dataset of pages from more than 25k sites. We analyze the topology of the Tor Network, including its depth and reachability from the surface web. We define a set of heuristics to detect the presence of replicated content (mirrors) and show that most of the analyzed content in the Dark Web (≈82%) is a replica of other content. Also, we train a custom Machine Learning classifier to understand the type of content the hidden services offer. Overall, our study provides new insights into the Tor network, highlighting the importance of initial seeding for focus on specific topics, and optimize the crawling process. We show that previous work on large-scale Tor measurements does not consider the presence of mirrors, which biases their understanding of the Dark Web topology and the distribution of content. Alfonso Rodriguez Barredo-Valenzuela, Sergio Pastrana, Guillermo Suarez-Tangil |
IEEE Trans. Inf. Forensics Secur. | 1 |