[tor-talk] Another Tor is Possible, Kane/Ksec

Nick Mathewson nickm at alum.mit.edu
Tue Oct 7 18:34:26 UTC 2014


On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Öyvind Saether <oyvinds at everdot.org> wrote:
>> Revocable anonymity.
>> http://cryptome.org/2014/10/another-tor.pdf
>
> I almost can not believe someone would write a paper describing a way
> to change Tor in a way which makes it totally insecure.
>
> Amadou Moctar Kane of KSecurity in India is free to make his own broken
> anonymity network and see how many people want to use that piece of
> garbage.
>
> It is sad that someone would waste his time writing such a paper and it
> is worse that I spent my precious time reading it.

What's saddest: You didn't explain why you think it's broken.  So
other people will have to read it too if they'd like to know whether
it's any good.

-- 
Nick


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