On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 04:38:49PM -0700, Jacki M wrote: > Comments on Paul Syverson Proposed attack? > Paul Syverson - Oft Target: Tor adversary models that don't miss the mark > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGXncihWzfw >
Ermm, brilliant. ;>) More seriously. The point of this work is not to propose attacks per se but to observe that a Tor adversary intending to target individuals or specific groups might be much more effective against those targets than would the usual "hoovering" adversaries described in the literature, even if it has roughly the same resources as the usually considered adversaries. (Hoovering adversaries simply try to gather as much as they can indiscriminantly.) And we observed that targeting adversaries are in various ways more realistic. We suggested that Tor design changes and security analyses should take targeting into account going forward. That was our main point. We also proposed some countermeasures for the specific example attacks we introduced to illustrate that point, some of which I think are original (onionsite templates) while others are part of territory already explored for other reasons (guard layering and different guard-set sizes and duration). aloha, Paul -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk