[tor-relays] US Investigators seem to learn

mick mbm at rlogin.net
Mon Feb 18 14:56:28 UTC 2013


On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:32:55 -0800
Andrea Shepard <andrea at torproject.org> allegedly wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 01:26:26PM +0000, mick wrote:
> > Whilst not quite a 1:1 ratio, it is close enough I think to show
> > that this is simply an agnostic relay. However, would not an exit
> > node show unbalanced traffic? Most net activity these days is web
> > browsing which is decidedly asymmetric - small outbound requests
> > result in much larger inbound responses. Won't an exit relay
> > reflect that as it is the last hop before the actual target site? 
> 
> It'd be balanced by the encrypted traffic to the middle node. 

Ah yes, of course!

Thanks 

Mick

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