[tor-talk] Question about something said about Tor in the Der Spiegel data dump

[Lars Luthman]

On Mon, 2014-12-29 at 09:11 -0600, Cypher wrote: 
> So I'm looking through the Der Spiegel data dump and noticed the
> following statement on document 35543:
> 
> "The client must not be running a Tor router of their own..."
> 
> That made me thing of a few questions but I'm specifically wondering
> what they mean here.
> 
> 1. Do they mean that it is confusing to them if I am connecting to the
> Tor network from a computer that also runs a relay but I do not have my
> client configured to use my relay
> 
> or
> 
> 2. Do they mean that it is confusing to them if I am connecting to the
> Tor network through a relay running on my own machine?

That depends on whether they can distinguish between connections made by
different Tor processes coming from the same network. Hopefully they
can't, in which case it's both 1 and 2, but if the two Tor processes are
different versions of Tor or use different versions of libraries such as
OpenSSL it might be possible to tell the connections apart, in which
case it's only 2.


--ll
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