On 10/05/2013 01:28 PM, Christoph Schulthess wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I've been thinking and reading a bit about Tor and especially hidden > servers, now I have a couple of questions:
Better would be creating questions on https://tor.stackexchange.com/ :) > 1. What are the exact criteria for applying the guard flag to a relay? The > older blog entry at > https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/entry-guardsnames 3 criteria > with exact numbers but there is a newer post which > suggests that the system has been changed since 2011. > > 2. How is the Weighted Fractional Uptime number calculated exactly? Could > you give an quick example? I found one explanation online but when I > calculated it, I always got quite different numbers than the example that > was given. > > 3. The Locating-paper mentions three attacks to locate hidden servers and > the entry guard concept as effective countermeasure. I understand how entry > guards protect from the predecessor attack and the distance attack, but so > far I don't see how they prevent the service location attack. Is there > another countermeasure against that kind of attack or did I miss something? > > Would be great if anyone could help me out. > > Christoph > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsusbscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
