Re: [tor-dev] Researching Tor: Quantifying anonymity against a global passive adversary

2015-06-03 Thread Virgil Griffith
This is my favorite paper on quantifying anonymity: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/Workshops/Anonymous/bagai.pdf -V ___ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev

[tor-dev] Researching Tor: Quantifying anonymity against a global passive adversary

2015-06-03 Thread Florian RĂ¼chel
Hi there, I am currently writing my Master's thesis about Mix networks Tor (was on list previously). I am currently at a point, where I'd like to practially quantify anonymity. That is, given a pcap, I want to anaylze how successful an adversary can determine whether a specific client talked to

Re: [tor-dev] Researching Tor: Quantifying anonymity against a global passive adversary

2015-06-03 Thread George Danezis
Hello Florian, I just saw your mail on tor-dev. The assumption a number of us have been using in our work, is that if the adversary observes a circuit at two different locations, then it can link it. This is a bit like assigning a unique ID to each circuit, and assuming that seeing the link /