[tor-talk] Tor compromised?

torvlnt33r at fastmail.fm torvlnt33r at fastmail.fm
Fri Oct 14 17:20:00 UTC 2011


A guess is that there might be a link between the bridges
enumeration attack mentioned in that article and the recent spike
in bridge use, for which one of the hypotheses was a botnet
(https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-September/0
21347.html).

Creating many circuits through the bridges is a way to make them
visible to a large proportion of relays, including potentially
malicious ones.

A possible countermeasure might be something similar to the
"Entry Guards" mechanism for circuits that go though bridges.

-- 
http://www.fastmail.fm - IMAP accessible web-mail



More information about the tor-talk mailing list