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It'd be great if botnets would help the tor network and turn some nodes into relays (including exit) to help anonymity and capacity, at least they wouldn't para
by the_french 13y ago
It'd be great if botnets would help the tor network and turn some nodes into relays (including exit) to help anonymity and capacity, at least they wouldn't parasite off the network completely.
- hdevalence 13y agoNo, not really -- that would be a much, much more serious problem for Tor. (As I understand it,) Tor relies on the assumption that relays are controlled by a diverse group of people. If one person suddenly adds 3 million Tor relays, then it doesn't help anonymity at all, since that one person can now monitor a significant portion of Tor traffic. If I own every relay on your circuit, I can monitor your traffic; if I own three million relays, it's almost certain that a significant portion of the traffic will be running through circuits composed of relays I own.
- thex86 13y agoAnd you do not even need to control all the relays: assuming you control the first node and the last node in the circuit and as Tor is a low-latency network, it's trivial to perform timing analysis to find out what someone is doing on the network.