Re: [tor-talk] Comments?

[Jacki M <jackiam2003@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for the explanation.



> On Aug 3, 2017, at 5:05 PM, Paul Syverson <paul.syverson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Jacki M wrote:
>> Comments on Paul Syverson Proposed attack?
>> Paul Syverson - Oft Target: Tor adversary models that don't miss the mark
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGXncihWzfw
>> 
> 
> Ermm, brilliant. ;>)
> 
> More seriously. The point of this work is not to propose attacks per se 
> but to observe that a Tor adversary intending to target individuals or
> specific groups might be much more effective against those targets
> than would the usual "hoovering" adversaries described in the literature,
> even if it has roughly the same resources as the usually considered
> adversaries. (Hoovering adversaries simply try to gather as much as
> they can indiscriminantly.) And we observed that targeting adversaries
> are in various ways more realistic. We suggested that Tor design changes
> and security analyses should take targeting into account going
> forward. That was our main point. We also proposed some
> countermeasures for the specific example attacks we introduced to
> illustrate that point, some of which I think are original (onionsite
> templates) while others are part of territory already explored for
> other reasons (guard layering and different guard-set sizes and
> duration).
> 
> aloha,
> Paul
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