[tor-relays] Bandwidth usage and relay anonymity

[Benedikt Gollatz]

On 2013-10-08 23:10, Nick wrote:
>> And will that Tor gateway still remain anonymous even if I run
>> other 'Public' services on the same server?
> 
> The tor relay isn't anonymous - its IP address will be widely 
> shared. It's used to keep tor users anonymous. Unless you're 
> referring to hidden services, in which case the answer is 'yes', I 
> think, as long as you're careful not to leak anything between the 
> hidden service and the public ones.

No, the answer is "no": an attacker will be able to correlate
non-availability periods of the public services and the hidden service
and thus deanonymise the hidden service.

Benedikt