[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages
Lunar
lunar at torproject.org
Tue Jan 21 15:20:07 UTC 2014
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version 45
Author: phw
Date: 2014-01-21T14:32:32+00:00
Revert previous fix.
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happening and offering to notify the Tor Project. However, the extension
is merely a proof of concept and not usable at this point.
-Philipp and Stefan's efforts have already identified 25 malicious and
-misconfigured relays that have subsequently been marked as such by the
-directory authority operators. We want the number of problematic relays
-to remain low, so let's hope that this will help with identifying those
-who try to attack Tor users in the future.
+Philipp and Stefan's efforts have already identified 25 bad relays that
+have subsequently been marked as such by directory authority operators.
+Even if we wish the number of problematic relays to stay low, let's hope
+this will help to identify those who try to abuse Tor users as soon as
+possible in the future.
[12] http://www.cs.kau.se/philwint/spoiled_onions/
[13] http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~mikepo/papers/tordecoys.raid11.pdf
version 44
Author: lunar
Date: 2014-01-21T14:24:29+00:00
most users don't know about Torbutton, but they know about the Tor
Browser
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that occasionally it's the relay's ISP that is responsible for an attack
despite the operator's good faith.
-The authors also describe an extension to Torbutton that can help with
+The authors also describe an extension to the Tor Browser that can help with
detecting HTTPS man-in-the-middle attacks: if the browser is unable
to verify a certificate, it will automatically retrieve the certificate
again using a different Tor exit node. If the certificates do not match,
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