[tor-talk] Question about Circuit Separation

Joe Btfsplk joebtfsplk at gmx.com
Sat Mar 19 22:07:10 UTC 2016


On 3/10/2016 6:00 AM, CANNON NATHANIEL CIOTA wrote:
>> This is a question about Tor Browser in specific.
>>
>> I've found a number of websites [0] [1] [2] that explicitly warn of
>> visiting your personal website over tor. The explanation is always that
>> if you "access other sites in the same session", an eavesdropper would
>> deduce that it was the owner of the (little-read) personal site.
>>
>> Doesn't Tor Browser use a new circuit for each domain? Is the advice
>> faulty or am I missing something?
> I think this advice was aimed for the time before Tor Browser utilized
> circuit isolation for each website. However you should still be aware
> that tracking cookies could contaminate the other circuits within the
> same browser session.
>
> Cannon C.
>
Which Tracking cookies?
Not the ones mentioned under "Identifier Unlinkability Defenses in the 
Tor Browser"?
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser/design/#identifier-linkability



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