Re: Path-spec - fast circuits

2010-02-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:18:33 -0500 Nick Mathewson ni...@freehaven.net wrote: On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 5:33 AM, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: [...] =A0 =A0 I've withheld comment on the above for a long time, mainly becaus= e I had intended to include it in a write-up that I still

Re: getinfo circuit-status

2010-02-14 Thread Nico Weinreich
OK, I already thought, that a node with real name (not the fingerprint) could be identified clearly. Can someone help with my first question (which of the circuits from getinfo circuit-status TOR will use)? Am 14.02.2010 01:04, schrieb Damian Johnson: Not sure about the first question (my

Re: Path-spec - fast circuits

2010-02-14 Thread Mike Perry
Thus spake Nick Mathewson (ni...@freehaven.net): 2010/2/12 ilter yĆ¼ksel ilteryuk...@gmail.com: For circuits that do not need to be fast, when choosing among multiple candidates for a path element, we choose randomly. For fast circuits, we pick a given router as an exit with probability

Re: Path-spec - fast circuits

2010-02-14 Thread Flamsmark
On 14 February 2010 03:15, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: But one big problem is that you have no guarantee whatsoever that I'm telling you the truth about my measurements. See for example Kevin Bauer et al's Low Resource Routing Attacks Against Tor. Yes, I've understood that

Re: Path-spec - fast circuits

2010-02-14 Thread Damian Johnson
+1. I was kinda floored at the logic behind 'since this attack hasn't been used in the wild it should be ignored' but... for each their own. ;) -Damian On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Flamsmark flamsm...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 February 2010 03:15, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: But

Re: Path-spec - fast circuits

2010-02-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:16:28 -0500 Flamsmark flamsm...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 February 2010 03:15, Scott Bennett benn...@cs.niu.edu wrote: But one big problem is that you have no guarantee whatsoever that I'm telling you the truth about my measurements. See for example Kevin Bauer et