Re: [tor-dev] New Paper: Cloud-based Onion Routing

2011-07-15 Thread Brandon Wiley
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Nick Jones wrote: > > > On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Brandon Wiley wrote: > > > > > Cool stuff. I like how the system can be automated and self-funding. > > > > With regards to bootstrapping, giving out one node at a time is not a > useful defense becaus

Re: [tor-dev] New Paper: Cloud-based Onion Routing

2011-07-15 Thread Nick Jones
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Brandon Wiley wrote: > > Cool stuff. I like how the system can be automated and self-funding. > > With regards to bootstrapping, giving out one node at a time is not a useful > defense because requests can be parallelized. [1] Moving nodes is similarly

Re: [tor-dev] New Paper: Cloud-based Onion Routing

2011-07-13 Thread Brandon Wiley
Cool stuff. I like how the system can be automated and self-funding. With regards to bootstrapping, giving out one node at a time is not a useful defense because requests can be parallelized. [1] Moving nodes is similarly useless because the attacker can continually map the network using free para

Re: [tor-dev] New Paper: Cloud-based Onion Routing

2011-07-13 Thread Nick Jones
On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Aaron wrote: > I have a few questions > > Q1: Regarding network bootstrap protocol: Consider the scenario where > a censor mines the boostrap node list and blocks these nodes. Do you > implement any mechanisms to prevent a censor from obtaining the entire

Re: [tor-dev] New Paper: Cloud-based Onion Routing

2011-07-13 Thread Aaron
I have a few questions Q1: Regarding network bootstrap protocol: Consider the scenario where a censor mines the boostrap node list and blocks these nodes. Do you implement any mechanisms to prevent a censor from obtaining the entire set of bootstrap nodes? Similarly, aren't public directory server

[tor-dev] New Paper: Cloud-based Onion Routing

2011-07-13 Thread Nick Jones
Hi All, I'm a graduate student at Princeton, and our research group has recently submitted a paper proposing a design for cloud based onion routing. The goal of our research is to securely perform onion routing on cloud based infrastructure (like Amazon EC2 and Rackspace) while allowing users