[tor-talk] Silk Road taken down by FBI

[mick]

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 02:36:20 +0000
mirimir <mirimir at riseup.net> allegedly wrote:
> 
> Still, if one uses nested VPN tunnels from multiple providers in
> suitably chosen spheres of influence, it will be nontrivial for
> adversaries to install enough taps. Going through China, for example,
> would be a serious roadblock for US-aligned TLAs. Even with four
> nested VPN tunnels, latency and bandwidth are far better than using
> Tor.
> 
> Finally, it's not either/or. It's easy to include Tor in nested VPN
> configurations. Latency is typically over two seconds, but bandwidth
> is adequate, especially for UDP traffic.
> 
Forgive me, I'm not sure I understand this. Could you elaborate please
on the nesting of the VPN tunnels with Tor? Since Tor does not
(currently) support UDP, what architectural model do you have in mind?
(e.g. openVPN tunnelled through openVPN to a Tor guard entry?)

Mick
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