-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 >> If I run two Vidalia instances with unique SOCKS ports and >> Control ports and connect two applications (say 2 instances of >> pidgin) on the unique SOCKS ports, a remote observer shouldn't be >> able to know that both my identities are the same right? > > That's true, but you could equally have each application connect > to the same tor instance and the remote observer still won't be > able to determine that both sets of traffic belong to the same > person.
It is certainly easier to link account A to account B if they always use the same circuit, but since tor version 0.2.3.3 you can achieve stream separation with one single tor instance - no need to run multiple instances. For more information see: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/171-separate-streams.txt https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/1865 0.2.3.x manual page -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF4EAREKAAYFAk/CS4wACgkQyM26BSNOM7aqhAD+JFSNd4xIDT611G7VPpLmsHyi GF5ouQk4Uo8Is5YPUKQA/0hl3NsQVlos16g8EvkA1cjK5rIyyYhk07gHTPIZrDrY =Udps -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
