[tor-talk] Meeting Snowden in Princeton

[benjamin barber]

"reflections on trusting trust"

http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~cse509/p761-thompson.pdf



On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 5:24 AM, W. Greenhouse <wgreenhouse at riseup.net>
wrote:

> > Also they weren't even attacking the dirauths, they were ignorantly
> trying to
> > perform a Sibyl attack, which the existence of dirauths makes impossible.
>
> I want to reiterate and emphasize this point. Had Lizard Squad attacked i2p
> instead, the attack would've succeeded and there would've been nobody even
> able
> to notice it had happened, because i2p doesn't use dirauths and so is
> vulnerable
> to network sibyls (as stated in their own documentation).
>
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