[bestbits] Demystifying the Onion Router: GV Face Tomorrow with Tor (part of a new Advox series)

[Niels ten Oever]

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Dear Willi,

I have studied Tor quite thoroughly and have run it for quite some
years. If you're claiming it's unsafe, please be precise and
substantiate your argument or don't make it. Peoples security is
depending on it.

Best,

Niels

On 05/30/2015 08:20 PM, willi uebelherr wrote:
> Dear Azrak Khan, many thanks for your participation. Maybe, from
> your base of experience, you can create a bigger diversity.
> 
> Dear Niels, search in the internet. You will find a big pool of
> information.
> 
> Use one person as a distribution point: Bruce Schneier from EFF.
> Maybe, he is also on this list and can make it more clearly. Or
> Jeremy Malcom can help us.
> 
> Use the texts from Robert Graham.
> 
> All this texts are very good startpoints to get a view around and
> about the problematic. We should try to go the reality.
> 
> many greetings, willi Buenos Aires, Argentina
> 
> 
> 
> Am 30/05/2015 um 11:14 schrieb Niels ten Oever:
>> Dear Willi,
>> 
>> To do this kind of timing attack you will need to have the
>> resources to monitor large parts of the Internet and/or have
>> control of many Tor relays and exit nodes.
>> 
>> Even in the NSA slides leaked by Snowden is was confirmed the NSA
>> did not have the ability to deanonymise Tor traffic.
>> 
>> Would be great to see the research papers where you are basing
>> your statements on.
>> 
>> As you know the traffic between the different hops on the Tor
>> network are encrypted, and the different hops are unknown. So I
>> don't know how you think that having access to an IXP would
>> somehow break encryption (between the hops) or the anonymity in
>> general.
>> 
>> Best, Niels

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