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I would presume that, given that it's a persistent service, it'd be relatively straightforward to do a timing analysis, given that an FBI computer could ping th

by warcher 13y ago

I would presume that, given that it's a persistent service, it'd be relatively straightforward to do a timing analysis, given that an FBI computer could ping the server at will, and then the server would reply from outside the network, via an exit node, which you could analyze if you had enough exit nodes. Honestly, there might be even more exploits that I'm unaware of (still not an expert), given that the silk road server is probably doing a lot of tor traffic, which makes them an outlier, and it's tough for an outlier to blend into the background. Maybe tor can mitigate that though, don't know.

dsl 13y ago
> an FBI computer could ping the server at will, and then the server would reply from outside the network, via an exit node, which you could analyze if you had enough exit nodes Can you please explain in detail how one would do this to a hidden service? I'm trying to determine if you just don't understand how hidden services work, or have found an actual vulnerability that needs to be addressed.
- jedunnigan 13y ago
  Here, a paper was written about it not too long ago: http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf The same goes for end users: http://www.ohmygodel.com/publications/usersrouted-ccs13.pdf http://www.ohmygodel.com/publications/usersrouted-ccs13.pdf
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