I don't think that you need to crack anything. $100,000 is for a research paper. Translation of the auction lot title: "Research the possibility of getting te

I don't think that you need to crack anything. $100,000 is for a research paper. Translation of the auction lot title: "Research the possibility of getting technical information about Tor users (their hardware)". Here's the talk that claims the possibility to deanonymize Tor users for less than $3,000 http://web.archive.org/web/20140705114447/http://blackhat.com/us-14/briefings.html#you-dont-have-to-be-the-nsa-to-break-tor-deanonymizing-users-on-a-budget http://web.archive.org/web/20140705114447/http://blackhat.co... There are published papers on the topic e.g., http://www.syverson.org/tor-vulnerabilities-iccs.pdf http://www.syverson.org/tor-vulnerabilities-iccs.pdf Lesson one is that Tor guards against traffic analysis not traffic confirmation. If there is reason to suspect that a client is talking to a destination over Tor, it is trivial to confirm this by watching them both. </quote>