49-page NSA research paper on how to crack Tor(apps.washingtonpost.com)
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49-page NSA research paper on how to crack Tor
http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/world/nsa-research-report-on-the-tor-encryption-program/501/
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At the end of the abstract of your paper: "We recommend changes to route selection design and implementation for Tor. These changes require no operational increase in network overhead and are simple to make; but they prevent the attacks we have demonstrated. They have been implemented."
So the NSA was unable to independently discover what's in the above paper. Or they discovered it, but it was at a higher cleared level than this leaked paper.
The "Locating Hidden Servers" paper has a .mil author too.
So the NSA was unable to independently discover what's in the above paper. Or they discovered it, but it was at a higher cleared level than this leaked paper.
The "Locating Hidden Servers" paper has a .mil author too.
This paper is from 2006, so there's almost certainly more developments since then.
Yet there was an attack (on an older version of Tor) published openly not long before this paper was written. (http://www.onion-router.net/Publications/locating-hidden-ser...)