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I wonder how many TOR nodes are run by the NSA?
by cabalamat 5y ago
I wonder how many TOR nodes are run by the NSA?
- calvinmorrison 5y agoDoesn't matter if you are going to an internal onion address
- KeepFlying 5y agoWhy not? It would just mean that the NSA needs to own more routers than it would to break TOR->Public internet routing. From what I understand, connecting to an onion address 'just' involves 6 routers, not the typical 3. (Of course an oversimplification.) Or am I misunderstanding your threat model here?
- sweetbitter 5y agohttps://svn-archive.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-design.pdf https://svn-archive.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper...
- Thorrez 5y ago>A global passive adversary is the most commonly assumed threat when analyzing theoretical anonymity designs. But like all practical low-latency systems, Tor does not protect against such a strong adversary. Instead, we assume an adversary who can observe some fraction of network traffic; who can generate, modify, delete, or delay traffic; who can operate onion routers of his own; and who can compromise some fraction of the onion routers.
- dragonelite 5y agoSounds like a 51% attack on crypto blockchains.
- Thorrez 5y agoYes, but this doesn't require 51%, at least as users typically use Tor.
- zaarn 5y agoTor Nodes are more the interest of the DoD, since they started the project and have interest in continuing it.