Re: Path-spec - fast circuits

[Damian Johnson <atagar1@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1. I was kinda floored at the logic behind 'since this attack hasn't
been used in the wild it should be ignored' but... for each their own.
;)

-Damian

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Flamsmark <flamsmark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 14 February 2010 03:15, Scott Bennett <bennett@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> >But one big problem is that you have no guarantee whatsoever that I'm
>> >telling you the truth about my measurements.  See for example Kevin
>> >Bauer et al's "Low Resource Routing Attacks Against Tor."
>>
>>     Yes, I've understood that from the outset, but I haven't seen any
>> evidence that such abuse is actually happening.
>
> Tor isn't just designed to be resilient to attacks that are actually being
> employed. It is designed to be resistant to theoretical attacks too - as
> well it should be. Indeed: complaining that we're protecting against
> attacks, but nobody is using them is like saying `I bought this expensive
> umbrella, but then I didn't even get wet.':
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