Package: tor Version: 0.2.3.19-rc-1 Severity: wishlist When using multiple instances of torify on the same computer to connect to the same host, it is possible for the according host to figure out that those two clients are very likely the same.
While when specifically selecting a certain Tor proxy in an application, I guess a user will very likely be aware that the same Tor identity is being used. However, for torify it is not that obvious that multiple instances are _not_ necessarily using a new Tor identity. A user might think: "It's a new torify instance, so it's probably another one of this Tor thingies, and they say a Tor thingy is pretty anonymous, right? (Proxies? Ain't heard of that, know idea what that is - but torify works great. What's torify doing internally? Don't know, I'm not a Tor developer) I have read 'man torify' and it's not saying anything about using the same Tor identity, it'd probably have been mentioned there otherwise. So in conclusion, I guess each torify instance has to have its own, anonymous identity." Maybe for now a paragraph about every torify instance sharing the same Tor identity should be added to the torify manpage in the WARNING section? Later, it'd be great if in fact each torify instance were having its own identity, but don't know how difficult it is to implement that. Cheers -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages tor depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii libc6 2.13-34 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.19-stable-3 ii libssl1.0.0 1.0.1c-3 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian7 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages tor recommends: ii logrotate 3.8.1-4 ii tor-geoipdb 0.2.3.19-rc-1 ii torsocks 1.2-3 Versions of packages tor suggests: pn apparmor-utils <none> pn mixmaster <none> ii privoxy 3.0.19-2 ii socat 1.7.1.3-1.4 pn tor-arm <none> pn xul-ext-torbutton <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/tor/torrc changed [not included] -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
