[tor-talk] Risk of checking multiple accounts with TorBirdy

dhanlin MlgAcRBC at yandex.com
Sat Jan 4 21:47:31 UTC 2014


K. Raven:
>> The adversary I had in mind was a malicious exit node administrator.
>> If all e-mail accounts are accessed using the same circuit, it seems
>> the exit node would see the near simultaneous connections (assume
>> encrypted) to various e-mail servers, and even with one occurrence
>> suspicion could be developed that the accounts accessed are linked.
> 
> SOCKSPort ... IsolateDestAddr?
> 
> IsolateDestAddr
> Don’t share circuits with streams targetting a different destination
> address.

Thanks, I did not know about IsolateDestAddr.  Is TorBirdy using it?  As
best I can tell it does not when used with a default TBB configuration.
 Maybe it should be a TorBirdy default?

dhanlin


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