-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi,
I have remained with Vidalia and installed it as standalone in order to be able to use it with newer Tor Browser Bundles releases and I am watching circuits to have an understanding about how they work. I have some basic questions, please and thank you in advance: 1) What is the lifetime of a circuit? For example if I connect via Tor to my email server, Tor will select 3 routers randomly and make the connection. For how long will the circuit stay up? When will it change? Of course, taking in consideration none of the relays get disconnected from the Tor network. Is it a lifetime set for circuit? Or a bandwidth traffic consumption limit? 2) For example when I access the website aol.com it has multiple resources which are hosted on other servers, other IP addresses and I can see a bunch of circuits on ports 80 and 443 just to be able to load the entire content of the website. Does Tor know that all these resources are for the same page, and should choose the same circuit for all the same like the parent circuit, or it chooses randomly? This is important because if a website is let's say trying to track user behavior and they see an IP address as REMOTE_ADDR and if they track another image hosted on other server, paired with a session ID to know it's the same session and that image gets requested from another IP address than site can be sure the user is using an anonymizer. 3) NTor circuit extension - don't ALL relays support this? 4) A connection to a hidden service - does it have a lifetime? I can see when I access a hidden service that more circuits are opened. Is there a lifetime for these or can I stay connected to the hidden service forever as long as all relays in my circuit stay online? - -- s...@sky-ip.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTD57lAAoJEIN/pSyBJlsReCsIAMZ8Lrx6+7Rn06jGZJ3jbX5l Yvbg/me9ZY3Gano8R0mcu1bNgts70IPbR2eWMxPr8cFAesGIkg4eJq5EbvcTECdH PvQDSs1/ubk1VSBWfOsavWJDlkL6MkSeva9hY68PIz1XFPBWhkQbfWgkdQ09kXLq CTFM6y5IMeDpHEngmwzF25YxmHj+5zh4ssbjf7C8Pd+BwWien383wFjrMBr4+OdP HnWcjw6YDehMtTlPyzuomuEOX+7giinu6vaqii2ZX3p/OdogLG2+26uDxflLCU2q n1n6dB5RmGUMGZtoicC0ZyJwSaUWDNJ1ysN6226yf3hHheCreEYifR2oaeq5veo= =xQiS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk