Re: [tor-talk] Question for those who say "Tor is pwned"

[Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le 21/06/2016 Ã 06:19, Paul Syverson a Ãcrit :
> We published a design in 2010 that essentially turns a
> solution against a passive adversary into a solution against an active
> adversary. It had some nice theoretical properties, but I don't think
> it was practical. These haven't been ruled out. There is ongoing
> research, but so far none of it has looked adequately useful in practice.

Probably you are referring to the paper mentioned in
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/041192.html
which indeed as I commented does not look realistic to implement, then I
suppose that the answer to my question is no

> I think there are some things we maybe could do with mixing and
> synchronization to raise the bar at least a little against a _passive_
> adversary. I have told many researchers my thoughts about this, but so
> far nobody has taken it up that I know of. I would like to look into
> it myself, but I already have a many-years backlog of more important
> (more likely to make a real difference IMO) research questions to
> answer.

Would be interested to know what are those thoughts (on or off the list)
and/or get possible links to them

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