“Entry Guards” in the Tor anonymity network mitigate against several traffic analysis attacks including the “predecessor” attack, statistical profiling, and passive AS-level correlation attacks. Several recent works have shown that the current design does not provide sufficient mitigation against these attacks and may also introduce new vulnerabilities. We propose a simple response to these res...

The art gallery problem enquires about the least number of guards sufficient to ensure that an art gallery, represented by a polygon P , is fully guarded. Most standard versions of this problem are known to be NP-hard. In 1987, Ghosh provided a deterministic O(log n)approximation algorithm for the case of vertex guards and edge guards in simple polygons. In the same paper, Ghosh also conjecture...

The mechanism for picking guards in Tor suffers from security problems like guard fingerprinting and from performance issues. To address these issues, Hayes and Danezis proposed the use of guard sets, in which the Tor system groups all guards into sets, and each client picks one of these sets and uses its guards. Unfortunately, guard sets frequently need nodes added or they are broken up due to...

The art gallery problem enquires about the least number of guards that are sufficient to ensure that an art gallery, represented by a polygon P , is fully guarded. In 1998, the problems of finding the minimum number of point guards, vertex guards, and edge guards required to guard P were shown to be APX-hard by Eidenbenz, Widmayer and Stamm. In 1987, Ghosh presented approximation algorithms for...

We study the Art Gallery Problem for face guards in polyhedral environments. The problem can be informally stated as: how many (not necessarily convex) windows should we place on the external walls of a dark building, in order to completely illuminate it? We consider both closed and open face guards (i.e., faces with or without their boundary), and we give some upper and lower bounds on the min...

In the Spy game, a spy is placed first at some vertex of a graph G. Then, k > 0 guards are also occupying some vertices of G. At each turn, the spy moves at speed s ≥ 2, i.e., along at most s edges and then, each guard moves at speed 1. The spy and any number of guards may occupy the same vertex. The goal of the guards is to control the spy at distance d ≥ 0, i.e., to ensure that, at every turn...