On 05/20/2019 07:55 AM, George Kadianakis wrote: > Memory Vandal <memvan...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hi, >> >> Are client connections to a hidden service .onion address that do not >> disconnect for hours safe? >> >> It may be a big file download or multiple keep-alive transactions that uses >> the established connection over and over for lets say few hours. >> >> If its not safe then what should be the max time a connection to .onion >> service should get disconnected so that it uses a new circuit when it >> reconnects? >> > > What kind of attacks are you worried about? I don't see any serious > threats for onion service clients when it comes to long lasting connections.
Perhaps there's increased risk of malicious-relay attacks and/or traffic correlation? I vaguely recall papers about that. -- 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