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Does it mean that an attacker with the ability to monitor network connections can see who is talking to whom?
by ajconway 5y ago
Does it mean that an attacker with the ability to monitor network connections can see who is talking to whom?
- grayhatter 5y agoYes an no. If you can't trust the network you're running on, you could get around this by tunneling via Tor. Tox itself makes direct connections to friends, to exchange encrypted messages, so while they can see when you send packets, and to what IP. They can't know what's in those messages. The trade off is, they'd need to be able to MITM your network. There's no servers they can capture, to learn this information no matter where you are.
- GoblinSlayer 5y agoGenerally speaking to hide the social graph you will need to bury legit traffic in much bigger fake traffic, which isn't very efficient. Tor almost gets away from this problem by sending everything all the way around the globe.