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[tor-bugs] #25574 [Core Tor/Tor]: Eliminate "silent-drop" side channels in Tor protocol



#25574: Eliminate "silent-drop" side channels in Tor protocol
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     Reporter:  mikeperry     |      Owner:  (none)
         Type:  defect        |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium        |  Milestone:
    Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal        |   Keywords:  guard-discovery-stats
Actual Points:                |  Parent ID:
       Points:                |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:  SponsorV-can  |
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 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-00

 There are lots of ways to inject data into Tor streams, and this is a
 vector of attack for guard discovery and confirmation:
 https://petsymposium.org/2018/files/papers/issue2/popets-2018-0011.pdf

 I have a branch that tries to eliminate a pile of these from a while ago,
 but it has lots of false positives due to the common occurrence of invalid
 stream IDs in practice (see #25573).
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/mikeperry/tor.git/log/?h
 =timing_sidechannel_fix-squashed1

 I think we may want to do #25573 before trying to merge that branch.

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