[tor-dev] N reasons why the spooks love Tribler (Number N' will surprise you)

[Nick Mathewson]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:09 PM, Nick Mathewson <nickm at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Yawning Angel <yawning at schwanenlied.me> wrote:

> And I think that the CREATE cell handler's code's implementation of
> the (deprecated) TAP protocol is vulnerable to the timing attack
> discussed in Goldberg's "On the Security of the Tor Authentication
> Protocol".

Whoops.  This paper didn't have a timing attack in it.  I don't know
what I was thinking of when I wrote this paragraph.  I think I was
misremembering which modifications the paper said that would have made
TAP vulnerable.

(Thanks to Ian for pointing this out to me.)

-- 
Nick