Is three hops enough? (was Re: Tor client over a SOCKS proxy, and Tor client running through another Tor Circuit)

[Ringo Kamens]

Perhaps you can do this:
firefox-->privoxy-->SOCKS proxy 1-->SOCKS proxy 2-->tor-->internet
This way, even if they could determine "your" ip, they would get the IPs of
your proxy which is re-routing encrypted tor traffic.


On 4/28/06, Paul Syverson <syverson at itd.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 02:35:16PM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> >
> > You can find out more about the last 25 years of anonymity research at
> > http://freehaven.net/anonbib/ .
> >
>
> To reinforce, most of what has been raised in this thread has been
> raised (often years ago) and subjected to lots of published
> analysis. The tradeoffs between anonymity and practicality continue to
> evolve, but if you have a thought off the top of your head, there's a
> good chance it's already reflected in the literature. Keep thinking
> about it and raising questions/comments, but do also have a look at
> the extensive research that's been done in this area.
>
> One paper that isn't posted in the anonbib (yet) shows some timing
> attacks confirmed via experiments on the Tor network and
> countermeasures to them. See
> http://www.onion-router.net/Publications.html#locating-hidden-servers
>
> There were also a different sort of timing attack conducted on a
> younger and much smaller Tor network. See
> "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis of Tor" in the anonbib.
>
> aloha,
> Paul
>
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