On Monday 26 February 2007 17:14, Eben King wrote:
> If you want more privacy/anonymity/security in your online dealings, look
> into Tor at http://tor.eff.org . It's easy to set up, only two programs,
> one of which I already had:
>
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 159776 Oct 10 2005 /usr/sbin/privoxy
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 538624 Dec 15 14:41 /usr/sbin/tor
>
> There's a link there to a video of the designer(?) giving a presentation
> about it at a hacking convention in the Netherlands (I think).
>
> I set it up, and while throughput is good once a connection is established,
> each DNS request also goes through the Tor network, and is actually
> executed who-knows-where. I'm setting up a caching DNS server as we speak;
> that should make it snappier.
A note to look into an attack on Tor:
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/department/publications/reports/docs/CU-CS-1025-07.pdf
--Steve Szmidt
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