On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Leif Ryge <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 11:20:59AM -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: [...] >> To avoid confusion, I would phrase that as not as "reveals their >> location to the adversary" but as "shows the adversary that >> connections are all coming from the same user." But yes. >> >> (If you want to avoid this, you also need to make sure that your MAC >> address is randomized whenever you move networks, that you make >> absolutely no non-Tor connections, and so on.) > > Is this tradeoff of using entry guards documented somewhere? I suspect that > there may be many users changing their MAC address to protect themselves > against this exact threat while not understanding that their entry guard set > uniquely identifies them. Perhaps the man page text about UseEntryGuards and > NumEntryGuards should mention it? A FAQ entry would be nice too.
I think a wiki FAQ entry and/or a documentation patch would be neat; anybody want to write one? -- Nick _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
