Re: [tor-talk] I have a quick question about security of tor with 3 nodes

2014-08-28 Thread Jonathan Proulx
The short version of "Why 3" is because if the attacker controlls the first and the last you loose, if not you win. So it doesn't really matter how many are in between because the attcker doesn't need to controll those to identify your traffic. That's of course a bit over simplified but if you wa

Re: [tor-talk] Tor Project - FOIA revelation ?

2018-03-02 Thread Jonathan Proulx
On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 04:18:32PM +0100, J B wrote: :https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-02/tor-project-almost-100-funded-us-government-report FFS this is not news it is well know and established that TOR was a US research project largely between US NRL (naval research lab) and MIT: https://