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Re: [tor-relays] 'relay early' attack detection at the infrastructure level



On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 10:08:41PM -0400, krishna e bera wrote:
> According to
> 
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-security-advisory-relay-early-traffic-confirmation-attack
> 
> the RELAY_EARLY cell has common legitimate uses.
> How can we distinguish an attack from those?

Correctly-behaving Tor relays never send RELAY_CELL cells backwards
(towards the client) on the circuit.

So if you see one, it's somebody not following the protocol.

--Roger

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