On Fr, Jul 19 2013, Juan Garofalo wrote:
Jens,
By means of avoiding 'foreign' relays you are stopping
adversaries outside of germany, but at the same time you're
making it easier for the german government to track you? Am I
missing something?
Note that in general I go for German entry guards, not for entire
Tor paths in Germany.
I hope to find guards “close” to me with which the communication
is not monitored. Clearly, if the German government is tracking
me everywhere in Germany then such guards do not exist, and my
approach fails. In that case, I cannot see technical solutions
but only political ones.
(Note that anonymization of communication with German partners
fails as both, my communication with the entry and the partner’s
with the exit, are monitored within Germany. Communication with
outside partners can also not be anonymized as the Germans’ are
sharing their data.)
If, as I hope, only major IXPs are monitored in Germany, then the
entry guard selection should avoid monitored paths. That is what
I’m trying to do. If the path to my entry is not monitored, my
end of the torified traffic is not observed, thwarting correlation
attacks.
Best wishes Jens
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