Collaborative Red Teaming for Anonymity System Evaluation

This paper describes our experiences as researchers and developers during red teaming exercises of the SAFEST anonymity system. We argue that properly evaluating an anonymity system — particularly one that makes use of topological information and diverse relay selection strategies, as does SAFEST— presents unique challenges that are not addressed using traditional red teaming techniques. We present our efforts towards meeting these challenges, and discuss the advantages of a collaborative red teaming paradigm in which developers play a supporting role during the evaluation process.