> The author is a security researcher, the tool is ages old and > abandoned, as far as I know it doesn't work right away unless you > change some of the code, and it was written to check what tor exit > nodes where running sslstrip or in other ways were messing with the > traffic. > > I'm not really sure what this fuzz is all about. I wonder how many > people actually use it these days. > > Also, *if* Tor can be used in this way, it will be. If no white-hat > will write code to do it, the black-hats will, and the only difference > is that you'll be unaware of the tool.
Agreed as to general sentiment. > Have you looked at I2P? http://www.i2p2.de/techintro.html > It for example allows both users and services to specify their hop > length, and uses packet switching instead of circuit switching. Phantom does this too... user specified hop counts based on their needs for speed vs. security. A nice design feature. *********************************************************************** To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to [email protected] with unsubscribe or-talk in the body. http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/
