Thanks, will look at that link - sounds interesting indeed! Maybe something to play with in the future. On 2 Oct 2014 01:24, "isis" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Chris Whittleston transcribed 5.0K bytes: > > I'm right in thinking that running scramblesuit is not going to do > anything > > for a middle relay correct? > > Correct. > > Pluggable Transports are (normally) used for hiding that one is speaking > the > Tor protocol (also they could be used to disguise any protocol). [0] A > middle > relay, or any normal non-bridge relay, is listed in the consensus, meaning > that anyone who looks at the consensus already knows you're speaking Tor. > > All of that said, scramblesuit and obfs4 both have some interesting > protections against traffic fingerprinting via timing correlations and > packet > size distributions, meaning that (if there were a way to do this) relays > could > use PTs between them to protect against some correlations. Doing this > would be > super weird. No one has done yet, to my knowledge, a security analysis of > how > running PTs in between normal relays would change things. That analysis > would > be really interesting. > > [0]: See > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/AChildsGardenOfPluggableTransports > for visual explanation of how some of the different PTs change your > traffic. > > -- > ♥Ⓐ isis agora lovecruft > _________________________________________________________ > GPG: 4096R/A3ADB67A2CDB8B35 > Current Keys: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt > > _______________________________________________ > tor-relays mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays > >
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