So, if you're paranoïd, or doing something where paranoïd behavior is requested, use a vpn inside and outside tor. Use linked proxy's on top of this. You'll be fine.
2013/4/4 Alexandre Guillioud <guillioud.alexan...@gmail.com> > I may be wrong, but i take for true that NSA as 10 to 30 years advance on > maths and cryptographic méthod. > > > Le jeudi 4 avril 2013, George Torwell a écrit : > > i may be wrong but: >> - we are talking about keys of every node along the path. how can you >> increase that just locally? >> - keep in mind that we dont know if factoring such a key is likely, if i >> remember correctly that talk mentioned huge amounts of computation power >> and electricity. >> something like a year for a 40 mega watt consuming data center per >> 1024 >> bit key. <maybe way off, but the point being - its really expensive.> >> on the other hand its rumored that the utah data center will have 65 >> mega watts from its own power station. >> im pretty sure that the developers will move us safely from these keys as >> soon as its needed :) >> >> >> On 4 April 2013 13:54, Bernard Tyers <ei8...@ei8fdb.org> wrote: >> >> > That's what I was thinking, I just didn't know if there was another >> > reasons. >> > >> > I guess the key size is configured on the Tor node? I haven't found it >> > anywhere in the configuration (I'm using TBB on OS X). >> > >> > Is it possible to increase the size of the key, if say I've got a big >> > server running as a node? >> > >> > If there are nodes using different length keys, is the security relying >> on >> > the node with the smallest key length? >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > Bernard >> > >> > ---- >> > Written on my small electric gadget. Please excuse brevity and >> (possible) >> > misspelling. >> > >> > Alexandre Guillioud <guillioud.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >The bigger the key is, the longer (cpu cycle) it take to >> encrypt/decrypt ? >> > > >> > >Le jeudi 4 avril 2013, Bernard Tyers a écrit : >> > > >> > >> Hi, >> > >> >> > >> Is there a reason 1024 bit keys, instead of something higher is not >> > used? >> > >> Do higher bit keys affect host performance, or network latency? >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> Thanks, >> > >> Bernard >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> ---- >> > >> Written on my small electric gadget. Please excuse brevity and >> > (probable) >> > >> misspelling. >> > >> >> > >> George Torwell <bpmcont...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> a second guess would be going after 1024 bit keys. >> > >> there is also a video on youtube from a recent con about the >> > feasibility of >> > >> factoring them, <"fast hacks" or something like that> at the end, >> jacob >> > >> applebaum asks about it and they advise him to use longer keys or >> > elliptic >> > >> curves crypto. >> > >> >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> > >> tor-talk mailing list >> > >> tor-talk@lists.torproject.org <javascript:;> >> > >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >> > >> >> > >_______________________________________________ >> > >tor-talk mailing list >> > >tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >> > >https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >> > _______________________________________________ >> > tor-talk mailing list >> > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >> > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> tor-talk mailing list >> tor-talk@lists.torproject.org >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk >> > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
