-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net> writes:

There is no competitor to the Tor Project in the field of online anonymity.

On the contrary: Tor has a serious weakness in that it uses a low-latency connection between user and server, allowing anonymity to be broken with simple packet timing correlation. Even the Tor documentation states ... for low-latency systems like Tor, end-to-end traffic correlation attacks [8, 21, 31] allow an attacker who can observe both ends of a communication to correlate packet timing and volume, quickly linking the initiator to her destination. --- http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/design-paper/challenges.pdf Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity. And there are competitors to Tor (open source), which use long, random latency. The basic idea is to use store-and-forward communication such as email and Usenet to allow the long random latency on which anonymity depends. This can be done by mailing an access request through a chain of anonymizing remailers to a web-to-mail gateway, with a return address contrived to cause the fetched information to be broadcast world-wide on Usenet. The requester watches for it there and plucks it when it arrives. Usenet and the remailer network are well-known. There are several web-to-mail gateways. The easiest these days is url@mixnym.net, and an easy way to use it is with (open source) anonget, see below. - -- -- StealthMonger <StealthMonger@nym.mixmin.net> Long, random latency is part of the price of Internet anonymity. anonget: Is this anonymous browsing, or what? http://groups.google.ws/group/alt.privacy.anon-server/msg/073f34abb668df33?dmode=source&output=gplain stealthmail: Hide whether you're doing email, or when, or with whom. mailto:stealthsuite@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20index.html Key: mailto:stealthsuite@nym.mixmin.net?subject=send%20stealthmonger-key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.9 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iEYEARECAAYFAk+Up6MACgkQDkU5rhlDCl7c+gCgozCKYdr7yEGiEIx/8K9XT2dq ajEAoJzlZ3b1eGtqlff2/gZPodaJ1Wsa =CXjD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ liberationtech mailing list liberationtech@lists.stanford.edu Should you need to change your subscription options, please go to: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech If you would like to receive a daily digest, click "yes" (once you click above) next to "would you like to receive list mail batched in a daily digest?" You will need the user name and password you receive from the list moderator in monthly reminders. You may ask for a reminder here: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech Should you need immediate assistance, please contact the list moderator. Please don't forget to follow us on http://twitter.com/#!/Liberationtech ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE