On 01/12/2012 02:58 AM, Marco Valerio Barbera wrote: > 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. >
Probably it would make sense to disclose the certain attack's name or details - I think I can guess but why guess when you can disclose? :) All the best, Jacob _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
