
He has also held the position of Head of Partners Group’s Singapore office, being responsible for the firm’s Asia-Pacific private equity investment activities between 20. Previously, Andreas was Head of the Americas, based in New York, and a member of the Executive Committee from 2014 to 2017. He has been with Partners Group since 2003 and has 24 years of industry experience across the globe. He is a member of the Global Investment Committee, the Private Equity Growth Investment Committee, the Private Equity Direct Co-Investments and Direct Lead Growth Investments Investment Committees, Chairman of the Private Equity Integrated Investment Committee, and a member of the Board of Directors of the firm's portfolio companies Aavas Financiers, CSS Corp., and EuroKids. Then we dissect the mechanism of Tor bridge mode in combination with the pluggable transport obfs4.Partner, Co-Head Private Equity Integrated InvestmentsĪndreas Baumann is Co-Head of the Private Equity Integrated Investments business unit, based in Zug. In this talk, we first introduce Tor and Tor network. Obfs4 is the latest pluggable transport of Tor, which can obfuscate the Tor traffic and have it look random. Pluggable transports manipulate all Tor traffic between Tor client and Tor entry node so that it’s not identifiable. Bridge relay nodes are not listed in the main Tor directory so that nobody can get all the bridge relay nodes to block them. To circumvent Internet censorship, Tor introduces bridge relay nodes and pluggable transports. Normal Tor traffic can be blocked by identifying its protocol packets and entry nodes which are listed in the main Tor directory. So Tor traffic is blocked there because its anonymity conflicts with the Internet censorship. The overlay network consists of thousands of relay nodes run by volunteers worldwide.Īs we all know, some countries censor Internet traffic. It directs Internet traffic through an overlay network to conceal the user’s location and Internet activities. Tor is renowned for its ability of enabling anonymous Internet communication to protect privacy. This talk was presented at SecureWV 2019. Dissect Tor Bridge and Pluggable Transport
