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I remember reading an doctoral paper from MIT about it, and the general principal involved a combination of large swaths of man-in-the-middle tor nodes, combine
by rotrux 10y ago
I remember reading an doctoral paper from MIT about it, and the general principal involved a combination of large swaths of man-in-the-middle tor nodes, combined with algorithms resembling physics formulas which use statistical mechanics to model fluid dynamics.
If that's the case the exploit is intrinsically linked to the way tor works, and there may be no patching possible.
I'ma need someone to fact-check me because I'm semi-busy right now and I don't have the article on-hand.
- schoen 10y agoThis is described as a Tor Browser exploit -- a vulnerability in the browser that people normally use with Tor -- rather than a vulnerability in the design of Tor or a way of performing traffic correlations. This vulnerability can probably be fixed permanently for all users with a tiny software patch.
- Miner49er 10y agoThe article indicated the vulnerability was in the Tor Browser, not Tor itself. A vulnerability in the Tor Browser can be patched, and it's likely present in Firefox as well.
- pizza 10y agoI'd very much like to read that paper, wow.