[tor-talk] Anonymity degree of TOR

Steven Murdoch Steven.Murdoch at cl.cam.ac.uk
Fri Feb 21 16:20:02 UTC 2014


Hi MR,

Degree of anonymity and entropy are not very useful metrics for Tor. There's a discussion of this and other possibilities for measuring security in these papers:

  http://www.syverson.org/entropist-final.pdf

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/pets08metrics.pdf

Best wishes,
Steven
 

On 20 Feb 2014, at 20:42, Maimun Rizal <maimun.rizal at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> Does some one calculate degree of anonymity of TOR network? 
> I would like to know degree of anonymity of TOR network, using 2 relays and 3 relays. How to explain, using 3 relays are more anonymous than 2 relays?
> 
> I have try to calculate using Shannon Entropy, but the result, with 2 relays is same with 3 relays.
> 
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> MR
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