Hello everyone, some of you received an email message from me a few hours ago about a survey I am doing on the effectiveness on a DoS attack on the Tor Network. I am writing you because I received a few, worried, private messages asking me to give some more detail about it on this mailing list.
As I stated in the email I sent, the aim of my study is that of evaluating whether a certain DoS attack that uses the Tor protocol constitutes a real danger to the Tor Network or not. The DoS attack I am taking in consideration tries to keep a Tor Relay busy performing expensive cryptographic operations making it impossible for it to process requests coming from honest clients/relays. I'm investigating on the actual amount of resources an attacker would need to tear down a given percentage of the Tor Relays operating today. The reason for the survey was, then, that of having a rough estimate on the effective speed of current Tor Relays in performing a given set of cryptographic operations. I realize that all this could have been avoided if I had previously sent a notification about my survey here. I sincerely apologize for any inconvenience I created to the Tor community. mb. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
