[tor-talk] tor using SSH

Andrew Lewman andrew at torproject.org
Tue Mar 22 19:13:33 UTC 2011


On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 03:48:59 -0600
egf at riskproof.no-ip.org wrote:

> I use <tor> on several systems here.  The firewall has "noticed" 
> several instances where all these <tor> systems are initiating
> <ssh> traffic with external sites(1).  These occur during odd
> hours when there is nobody using these systems, thus there
> is some suspicion.  The firewall has since blocked this suspect 
> outgoing traffic until they hear differently.  This doesn't seem
> to affect <tor> functionality.

How are you detecting ssh activity?  actual protocol analysis or tcp
port 22?  There are valid relays on tcp port 22 which your tor client
may connect to in the normal operation of tor.

-- 
Andrew
pgp 0x74ED336B


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