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
I'm going to have to delve deeper into the design and other docs. I thought I understood what was going on to some extent, but the more I think about it the more questions I have.
Thanks for bearing with me and my semi-newbie questions.
Anthony