Re: Can nickname be duplicate?

["F. Fox" <kitsune.or@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Jon McLachlan wrote:
(much snippage)
>> Part of what makes Tor anonymous is a that it has a large # of relays
>> that may or may not be supporting any particular anonymous stream.  When
>> one indefinitely restricts, for instance, the exit relays (or entry
>> relays) that one uses to construct anonymous tunnels, then this does
>> hurt one's anonymity simply because the "cloud" of used relays of what
>> it could have been, is reduced to less than what it could have been. 
>> This is of course assuming that the trust of any particular relay is
>> uniformly distributed over all relays... so, of course if there's a
>> totalitarian censorship somewhere, then yeah, don't trust those
>> relays... otherwise... might not be in the best interest of anonymity...
> I think in such a situation, one would want to exclude nodes from their
> own country; at the very least, they'd want to exclude such exit nodes.
> 

All things being equal, I agree: The larger the potential cloud, the
higher the degree of anonymity. Certainly, restricting the node pool
isn't something that should be done unnecessarily.

However, in a totalitarian situation, it's wise to make the trade-off of
"shallowing" the node pool, to gain the much larger benefit of greatly
reducing the chance of the government censoring the exit - or worse,
breaking your anonymity.

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F. Fox: A+, Network+, Security+
Owner of Tor node "kitsune"
http://fenrisfox.livejournal.com
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