How I Learned to Stop Ph34ring NSA and Love the Base Rate Fallacy

[Steven J. Murdoch]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:27:11PM +0000, The23rd Raccoon wrote:
> This post performs some basic analysis of the utility of timing
> correlation attacks against a moderately used anonymous network,
> specifically with respect to the Base Rate Fallacy[1] of Bayesian
> statistics. Via that same analysis, it also for the first time begins to
> quantify the utility that additional users bring to a low latency
> anonymous network in terms of resistance to timing attacks.

George Danezis has discussed this post on his blog:

 http://conspicuouschatter.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/the-base-rate-fallacy-and-the-traffic-analysis-of-tor/

Steven.

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