Re: restricting circuits to top 30

[Paul Syverson <syverson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 03:39:33PM -0600, Arrakistor wrote:
> Top thirty what? Bandwidth, country, alphabetical?
> 
> I'll tell you what would happen. Security compromise. All China has to do is open up some really fast/country/a-list Tor servers, and then they can figure out the circuits.
> 

Apropos to this, you might want to look at the attacks in
"Reliable MIX Cascade Networks through Reputation" that can
be found at http://freehaven.net/anonbib/
or http://www.syverson.org/http://www.syverson.org/

> ST
> 
> Thursday, February 9, 2006, 4:45:37 PM, you wrote:
> 
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> > What would happen if clients would restrict
> > the node set to build circuits to, say, top 30 
> > from http://serifos.eecs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/exit.pl?sortbw=1
> > ?
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> -- 
> Best regards,
>  Arrakistor                            mailto:arrakistor@xxxxxxxxx