On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 04:59:09AM -0500, grarpamp wrote: > > I thought I would let you know: Our US hoster is regularly contacted by > > law enforcement about our exits there. Some agents ask if the traffic > > pattern is balanced, ie. if the same amount of traffic enters and leaves > > the box. > > > > I always argue that this is a good indicator for Tor traffic, and that > > it is bad to mix Tor traffic with other traffic for that exact reason. > > Due to encryption and compression it might only be balanced to > within some typical ratio. I'm sure you have a handle on that number. > But that any non 1:1 ratio could make it appear to be serving (or > receiving) continual amounts of data. Which in the eye of agents > could raise question. Another question is whether these US hosts > are just volunteering this data to whoever comes asking, with or > without your instruction, or complying with formal legal orders? > > On the plus side, hopefully everyone is coming away with the > fact that it's just an uninteresting, agnostic, relay service and > time is better spent elsewhere. Interesting; I'm pretty sure we do not use TLS compression. Nick M., that's true, yeah? On the other hand, it could also be unbalanced because of: * Using that Tor process as a client * Running a hidden service on that Tor process * Running a directory mirror -- Andrea Shepard <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> PGP fingerprint: 3611 95A4 0740 ED1B 7EA5 DF7E 4191 13D9 D0CF BDA5
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