On 11/14/2014 05:42 PM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 06:20:16PM -0500, grarpamp wrote: >> Professor Sambuddho Chakravarty, a former researcher at Columbia >> University???s Network Security Lab and now researching Network >> Anonymity and Privacy at the Indraprastha Institute of Information >> Technology in Delhi, has co-published a series of papers over the last >> six years outlining the attack vector, and claims a 100% ???decloaking??? >> success rate under laboratory conditions, and 81.4% in the actual >> wilds of the Tor network. >> >> http://thestack.com/chakravarty-tor-traffic-analysis-141114 >> https://mice.cs.columbia.edu/getTechreport.php?techreportID=1545&format=pdf > > I put up a few pointers here for readers to get up to speed: > https://blog.torproject.org/blog/traffic-correlation-using-netflows
I also recommend his PhD thesis: Sambuddho Chakravarty (2014) Traffic Analysis Attacks and Defenses in Low Latency Anonymous Communication http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/theses/sambuddho_thesis.pdf > There sure are a lot of things going on in Tor-land these days, but I > don't think this has much to do with any of the other recent stories. > Rather, some journalist thought this would be a great time to drop > another story. > > In summary, it's great to see more research on traffic confirmation > attacks, but a) traffic confirmation attacks are not a new area so don't > freak out without actually reading the papers, and b) this particular one, > while kind of neat, doesn't supercede all the previous papers. > > --Roger > -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
