RE: [Full-disclosure] Is there a way to trace back Tor user

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Hey there

 

There is a paper out trying to describe the different methods of tracking TOR user

 

http://www.fortconsult.net/images/pdf/tpr_100506.pdf

 

Best regards

Dennis

CIRT.DK

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jianqiang Xin
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 4:49 PM
To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk
Subject: [Full-disclosure] Is there a way to trace back Tor user

Regarding to recent debate about the use of Tor. Just wondering if it is practical to trace back the user if he is using Tor to hide his origin. As far as I know, there were several approaches using timing correlation to trace back TCP connections. It seems that the technique is there but the problem is the placement of monitors. Since the Tor servers are scatter around the world and it is impractical to access  them all.  If in a perfect world that you can monitor all the traffic of all Tor servers, you should be able to trace back with high success rate.

Is there any better solutions? Thanks.

yours,
Michael

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