[tor-talk] Tor compromised?

[Mansour Moufid]

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 5:30 AM, George-Lopez <g.lo.subber at gmail.com> wrote:
> French students were able to exploit a vulnerability in Tor network
> Details here (french):
> http://www.itespresso.fr/securite-it-la-confiance-dans-le-reseau-d-anonymisation-tor-est-ebranlee-47287.html/2

More information:

http://www.h2hc.com.br/palestrantes.php#Speaker7
http://twitter.com/#!/efiliol/status/124427936001564672

Sounds to me like a cryptographic attack (among others) -- the virus
modifies the crypto upstream and there is an observable effect
downstream. Could holding a CTR nonce constant in RAM (combined with
plaintext injection) have a ripple effect in the Tor network?

-- 
Mansour