[tor-talk] New Astoria Tor client is said to be better than plain Tor

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Sat May 23 01:40:23 UTC 2015


On 05/22/2015 14:26, Rishab Nithyanand wrote:
> Our evaluation shows that it does quite well to avoid asymmetric
> correlation attacks, but the performance is a bit off from Tor (metric:
> page load times for Alexa Top 100 from 10 countries).

But such attacks exploit bursts of traffic with higher-than-average 
byterate, or frequent changes of the traffic intensity. Would an option 
limiting bandwidth of the tor connection also make it more secure in the 
similar way?

Yuri


More information about the tor-talk mailing list