[michael.holstein at csuohio.edu: Re: Anonymity questions]

[ADB]

No crap. That's only if they're specifically watching YOU or something 
you're connected to in some way. However, a large, vibrant Tor network 
would greatly hinder 'roving wiretap' type passive intel gathering 
operations.

~ADB

coderman wrote:
> On 2/22/06, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>   
>> ... (use VPNs between Tor nodes, IPsec, etc)
>> Thoughts?
>>     
>
> tor does not apply to an NSA threat model; your low latency mix/onion
> == p0wn3d by NSA, sorry.
>
> from the FAQ they say as much: [6.7
> http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ ]
>
> "As mentioned above, it is possible for an observer who can view large
> portions of the Internet (called a 'global adversary') to be able to
> correlate timings of all traffic entering and exiting the tor network,
> and thus link arbitrary users. Tor does not defend against such a
> threat model."
>
> that said, i think IPsec is a great idea in as many places as possible
> assuming your key distribution/exchange is well implemented.
>
>
>
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