[tor-talk] MITM attack: How to see Tor Messenger's exit node?

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Mon May 9 06:28:41 UTC 2016


On 5/4/16, Nurmi, Juha <juha.nurmi at ahmia.fi> wrote:
> There seems to be a man-in-the-middle attack. The attacker probably is an
> exit node.
> ...
> Is there a way to see the exit node that Tor messenger is currently using?
> I need this info to test the exit node and report it to Tor Project if it
> seems to perform this man-in-the-middle attack.


You could see, monitor, and verify the exit in use, both in realtime
and historically, by any and all apps, regardless if they have such
info builtin, and without installing extra tools, if people adopted this...

# Combine setevents circ and stream
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11179

Till then we're going to continue to be bombarded by
'What exit use?', 'How my system / apps using tor'.


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