Tor network signature detection
Watson Ladd
watsonbladd at gmail.com
Wed Sep 6 02:02:19 UTC 2006
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Arrakistor wrote:
> Nick, Roger, et al
>
> Does the ISP/network administrator know if a client is connected to the tor network or is
> the connection disguised? Essentially, does running tor create
> signatures?
>
> Regards,
> Arrakistor
>
>
Not as clearly as http. But if a connection is used for any time at all
it shows the ability to decrypt things encrypted with a tor servers
public key. Clients can be identified by looking at the ports and
dirserver accesses.
Sincerly,
Watson Ladd
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