Re: [tor-talk] privacy of hidden services

2016-12-21 Thread Xinwen Fu
Sent from Fu's iPhone > On Dec 21, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Allen wrote: > > I have a question about the privacy of hidden services. Let's say I > create a tor hidden service and privately send the onion address to > only two other people. Would anyone outside of myself and

Re: [tor-talk] how bridges work

2012-05-08 Thread Xinwen Fu
This paper may help http://www.cs.uml.edu/~xinwenfu/paper/Bridge.pdf. Xinwen Fu On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 5:07 AM, eliaz el...@tormail.org wrote: Of what use is a bridge working off an IP address of a provider located in, say, the US, to a client in, say, Syria? Sorry for the elementary

Re: [tor-talk] on the topic of tor's weaknesses

2012-02-26 Thread Xinwen Fu
on padding by my group and Matthew Wright at UT Arlington. Cheers, Xinwen Fu What do you think? Chris On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:49 PM, Xinwen Fu xinwe...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a paper of mine on TCP Performance in Flow-Based Mix Networks: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~xinwenfu/paper

Re: [tor-talk] on the topic of tor's weaknesses

2012-02-26 Thread Xinwen Fu
Sorry, TCP over TCP is believed not a good idea in terms of performance. On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Xinwen Fu xinwe...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Chris Wheeler grin...@gmail.com wrote: Dr Fu, About the paper you sent, particularly the section

Re: [tor-talk] on the topic of tor's weaknesses

2012-02-25 Thread Xinwen Fu
and exits, some attacks may still work, e.g., by correlating the traffic patterns at the two sides of a circuit. Here is a paper describing such possibility: http://www.cs.uml.edu/~xinwenfu/paper/TorCellSize_ICC11_Fu.pdf. Hope it helps a bit. Xinwen Fu On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Chris

Re: [tor-talk] on the topic of tor's weaknesses

2012-02-25 Thread Xinwen Fu
Tor relies on. TCP is very sensitive to packet ordering errors. Indeed, there are still a lot of things we don't know for sure. However, at least Tor is over there and you can test it on the real one or a private Tor. Cheers, Xinwen Fu On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Joe Btfsplk joebtfs

Re: [tor-talk] on the topic of tor's weaknesses

2012-02-25 Thread Xinwen Fu
on the performance problem. Cheers, Xinwen Fu On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Xinwen Fu xinwe...@gmail.com wrote: That is a lot of thinking. Many of the problems have been discussed before. If you look at the bibliography on mixes, there are a lot of discussions. Here is one of my papers

[tor-talk] Legal or not on monitoring traffic at a Tor exit?

2011-10-23 Thread Xinwen Fu
of the operators? Is there any legal liability? Xinwen Fu ___ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk

Re: [tor-talk] Legal or not on monitoring traffic at a Tor exit?

2011-10-23 Thread Xinwen Fu
if somebody attacks my computer running a Tor exit via Tor? I have to call police since I cannot check the content of the attack traffic? Xinwen Fu On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxw...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Xinwen Fu xinwe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a bit