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What are the odds it's a global passive adversary sending trackable traffic through Tor to map out the network?
by blake8086 13y ago
What are the odds it's a global passive adversary sending trackable traffic through Tor to map out the network?
- quasque 13y agoAll the Tor relay nodes (except for bridges) are publicly listed in the directory, how do you mean map out the network?
- blake8086 13y agoOk, I can't think of an attack that could be accomplished by controlling half the traffic on the network. It doesn't mean there isn't one, but I can't think of it. I think that was a bad guess on my part.
- krenoten 13y agoGuard nodes make it so only a certain number of certain types of nodes are visible to any client. By controlling a huge number of clients, you are able to enumerate them much more easily. https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2011-October/002986.html https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2011-October/...
- mistercow 13y agoI'm speculating heavily, but it might be beneficial to precompute some kind of timing map for a large portion of the network in order to have a baseline for future timing analysis attacks. I only have a very vague idea of how that might be useful, so this is low probability.