Re: Why does TOR stream data when it’s not in use?

2007-12-11 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 MORTEN HAGEN wrote: > Hi, > > I’m new to TOR. I’ve been using it for some weeks for online privacy. > > I’ve installed TOR and Privoxy from the latest Windows Vidalia Bundle > and configured my Internet Explorer 7 manually. Everything seems to work

Re: possible DoS attack?

2007-12-11 Thread F. Fox
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Bennett wrote: (snip) > What I > found that seemed out of the ordinary was many dozens of connections to my > directory mirror port from 83.103.38.65 (fastweb65.ietnet.net) (snip) > 83.103.38.65 does not appear in my cached-consensus or > c

Why does TOR stream data when it’s not in use?

2007-12-11 Thread MORTEN HAGEN
Hi, I’m new to TOR. I’ve been using it for some weeks for online privacy. I’ve installed TOR and Privoxy from the latest Windows Vidalia Bundle and configured my Internet Explorer 7 manually. Everything seems to work fine when I test my connection on such testing sites on the internet. My question

possible DoS attack?

2007-12-11 Thread Scott Bennett
In the last couple of days, I've noticed my tor server maxing out the transmit side (~110-~115 KB/s) of my ADSL while typically using <10 KB/s of the receive side, usually for long periods of time. Curious about this oddity, I began looking at netstat output more frequently to see what was up

Re: New attack-vector via covert and side channel

2007-12-11 Thread Steven J. Murdoch
On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 03:59:59PM +0100, kazaam wrote: > I dunno how public it is but I found today this dissertation by > Steven Murdoch about attacking the tor-network via covert- and > sidechannels: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-706.pdf This results discussed aren't actually t

New attack-vector via covert and side channel

2007-12-11 Thread kazaam
I dunno how public it is but I found today this dissertation by Steven Murdoch about attacking the tor-network via covert- and sidechannels: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-706.pdf greets -- kazaam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgpft0S0eAfki.pgp Description: PGP signature