Re: How I Learned to Stop Ph34ring NSA and Love the Base Rate Fallacy

2008-11-22 Thread Steven J. Murdoch
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:27:11PM +, The23rd Raccoon wrote: This post performs some basic analysis of the utility of timing correlation attacks against a moderately used anonymous network, specifically with respect to the Base Rate Fallacy[1] of Bayesian statistics. Via that same

Re: How I Learned to Stop Ph34ring NSA and Love the Base Rate Fallacy

2008-09-29 Thread Sven Anderson
Dear Raccoon, Am 28.09.2008 um 14:27 schrieb The23rd Raccoon: [2]. http://www.stinkymeat.net/ thanks for that reference. Great! As for your article: as far as I can tell the calculations seem to be valid, but I wonder, why others didn't address this in their timing attack work before.

How I Learned to Stop Ph34ring NSA and Love the Base Rate Fallacy

2008-09-28 Thread The23rd Raccoon
Abstract Ladies and gentlemen, I am a Raccoon who has learned to do math. It used to be the case that on the Internet, nobody knew you were a Raccoon. But now that Privacy is dead, I've decided to come clean. I present to you this anonymously authored, non-peer reviewed communication to do with