<div dir="ltr">Ok, Camilo, let me get this straight. <br><br>1) Strict Exit Relay Management is for limited the exit node to one country.<br><br>2) Exclude Relay Management, is for excluding certain countries, but does it exclude it as a exit node or as a TOR node?<br>
<br>Also, will it still form a connection yet not use it? Or should it not even form a connection?<br><br>Here's my problem. I have excluded USA and UK from the dropdown list using ctrl key as you said and added them, but i see that connections are still formed with them as a TOR node and also as exit nodes. <br>
<br>NOt only that, I also noticed that it even routed my request through an exit node through UK, specifically:<br><br>achaycock (Online)<br>Location:<br>London, GB<br>IP Address:<br><a href="http://78.86.55.121">78.86.55.121</a><br>
Platform:<br>Tor <a href="http://0.1.2.19">0.1.2.19</a> on Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 [server] {terminal services, single user} {terminal services}<br>Bandwidth:<br>111 KB/s<br>Uptime:<br>13 hours 20 mins 22 secs<br>
Last Updated:<br>2008-08-21 04:03:38 GMT<br><br>What am i doing wrong?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:18 AM, Camilo Viecco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cviecco@anml.iu.edu" target="_blank">cviecco@anml.iu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Thanks for giving it a try. I have comments inline<div><br>
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M wrote:<br>
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Hello friends I'm new on the list. I hope you bear with my questions and problems.<br>
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I just installed Camilo's version of Vidalia, and it seems i have a couple of problems:<br>
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1) You can only exclude one country from the "invalidnodes" settings.<br>
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You can do multiple selections by pressing the 'Control (ctrl)' button when selecting<br>
the second (or next) country.<div><br>
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2) You have to exclude it every time you start vidalia (it does not save the settings)<br>
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Are these bugs in my installation, or is the program like this?<br>
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It is a bug in the program. Exit countries should be saved. Thanks for finding it. I will fix it in a few days.<div><br>
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3) Also, how much does this reduce anonymity?<br>
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Placing any restrictions on the nodes most likely will reduce your anonymity. In particular limiting<br>
the exit country significanly reduces your anonymity as it is much cheaper for an attacker to place<br>
nodes in that country and thus your probability of selecting a 'bad' exit is higher.<br>
Reducining the number of other nodes could 'possibly' be bad for your anonymity. Part<br>
of Tor's attacker model assumes that there are many attackers that will not cooperate with each other.<br>
There might be more academic studies about these effects, but none come to my mind at the moment.<br>
Will let the list give you the pointers.<br>
(I think 2007 PETS IX attack on Tor would be a place to start<br>
(<a href="http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/murdoch-pet2007.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/cache/murdoch-pet2007.pdf</a>))<br>
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Thank you for noticing AND submitting about the bug<br><font color="#888888">
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Camilo<br>
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