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

2016-06-21 Thread carlo von lynX
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 12:48:38PM -0400, Paul Syverson wrote: > Well there's things like alpha-mixing (better tau-mixing) as that Yes, alpha-mixing would be a great step forward I guess. Would you say the things I wrote on http://secushare.org/anonymity regarding not building future work on Tor a

[tor-talk] Day of Action: Is the FBI targeting YOU??

2016-06-21 Thread Kate Krauss
Greetings, Tor Talkers! The US Department of Justice is trying to institute new rules that would let the FBI hack computers that use Tor and other privacy-protecting technologies--all over the world. EFF and Tor are asking you to sign a petition or (if you are a US person in the US) send a note t

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

2016-06-21 Thread Paul Syverson
On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:28:12PM +0200, Aymeric Vitte wrote: > > > Le 21/06/2016 à 06:19, Paul Syverson a écrit : > > 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 pro

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

2016-06-21 Thread Paul Syverson
Thanks for the kind words and support Ted. I always feel funny getting much credit here when there's so much collaboration and shoulders of giants and all that. Not to mention that I just work on making this stuff. It's the people who use it because they are doing things that really need it who ar

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

2016-06-21 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
So we learn: Well known limitation or TOR are well known. From this we can determine: There is more work to do either in improving TOR or devising another theoretical model that is but usefully performant and secure against a global passive adversary (there's probably a few more doctoral robes

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

2016-06-21 Thread Aymeric Vitte
Le 21/06/2016 à 06:19, Paul Syverson a écrit : > 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

[tor-talk] Latest Research Trends in Tor Security

2016-06-21 Thread Imran Ahmad
Dear All  I am going to start my PhD and I have chosen "Tor Security" as my research area. I am going to prepare my PhD research proposal. It is requested to suggest some latest topics in Tor security and some useful links and resources. Thanking you in anticipation. Regards; Imran Ahmadskype id: