[tor-talk] Russia actually kind of cracked (?) Tor

[Ivan Markin]

Anton Nesterov:
> (I don't believe that was result of "cracking Tor", he probably
> failed somehow (maybe used real name), also it would be strange to
> perform probably costly attack for fine less than $100).

Probably it is made to create a case that "we can do this". Or maybe it
was just a test.

It looks like the most obvious way to crack Tor _right now_ and
_forever_ at low price is to perform a country-scale traffic
confirmation attack. Russia already has capability to do so. It's called
SORM. With this contract they possibly want to "do math" and simply make
it all work.

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Ivan Markin