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Don't mean to hijack the thread; but speaking of Tor...If some entity ran enough nodes wouldn't they be able to get a pretty good idea of the traffic sources an

Don't mean to hijack the thread; but speaking of Tor...If some entity ran enough nodes wouldn't they be able to get a pretty good idea of the traffic sources and destinations?

koolba 10y ago
The "O" in TOR stands for "Onion". The name comes from having many layers with traffic routing between them. Each node only knows enough to go to the next node. You'd have to control the entire chain to track a packet from source (TOR client on end user's machine) to target (i.e. TOR-exit). It's definitely possible but with an increased number of hops it becomes harder and harder.
- mike-cardwell 10y ago
  You can correlate traffic without the middle node thanks to timing and packet sizes. You just need the entry and the exit nodes. Hence why they introduced entry guards. To make things a little more difficult for an adversary that manages to bring up a lot of nodes.
- chatmasta 10y ago
  It's Tor* not TOR. https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhyCalledTor https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#WhyCalledTor
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snerbles 10y ago
You should never trust an exit node. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-tors-exit-nodes/ https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/06/25/can-you-trust-to...