[tor-talk] Multiple Tor instances

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>> If I run two Vidalia instances with unique SOCKS ports and
>> Control ports and connect two applications (say 2 instances of
>> pidgin) on the unique SOCKS ports, a remote observer shouldn't be
>> able to know that both my identities are the same right?
> 
> That's true, but you could equally have each application connect
> to the same tor instance and the remote observer still won't be
> able to determine that both sets of traffic belong to the same
> person.

It is certainly easier to link account A to account B if they always use
the same circuit,
but since tor version 0.2.3.3 you can achieve stream separation with one
single tor instance - no need to run multiple instances.

For more information see:
https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/171-separate-streams.txt

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1865

0.2.3.x manual page
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