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Re: Is three hops enough? (was Re: Tor client over a SOCKS proxy, and Tor client running through another Tor Circuit)
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 11:47:07AM -0400, Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> If there is an attack that can be made, for example, over a 9 hop
> chain where an attacker only has two nodes compromised, I'm not sure
> what it is. I suppose there could be some sort of timing attack, one
> that can't be easily mitigated by cover traffic. Maybe that's what
> I'm missing.
Exactly:
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#VariablePathLength
--Roger