Timeline for Traffic anonymization through routing - software and algorithms
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| Dec 19, 2015 at 1:45 | answer | added | Rory Alsop♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 13:33 | comment | added | Michael Helwig | Btw, TOR people argue that more nodes does not help to anonymize you because if somebody controls entry and exit node they can deanonymize your traffic. But if I would manually select the nodes involved in my paket bouncing network and would be able to assure that there are no 2 nodes owned by the same party, this argument does not apply. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 13:30 | comment | added | Michael Helwig | I know I probably could do that. But I don't want to use TOR (nor speed up my connection) but to simply route pakets to their destination (let's assume encryption is not even necessary). It seems to me that using a higher number of nodes for paket routing makes it harder to get to the origin of the traffic, especially if traffic takes different routes within the network, since every node involved could be the possible source of the traffic. And the higher the number of nodes, the higher the number of potential originators. Am I wrong here? | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 11:41 | comment | added | RoraΖ | You can rebuild TOR to use more nodes but why would you need more than 3 nodes for anonymity? 4 nodes doesn't make you more anonymous, it just slows down your connection. I don't see how splitting packets up and forcing fragmentation/reassembly will speed up your connection. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 7:03 | comment | added | Michael Helwig | With "TOR is limited to 3 nodes" I mean that TOR-traffic passes usually three nodes, entry, relay and exit node (torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#ChoosePathLength). The TOR network consists of many more nodes, of course. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 2:57 | comment | added | No Time | What do you mean exactly when you say TOR is limited to 3 nodes? He seems to be talking about a zombie/bot network, so in example with 'ABCD' half the packets go to A then to C END, half to B to D to A to END. Full packet load is being delivered to A eventually, and then to target. In the end the source IP would end up as A for full packetload. This sounds like TOR honestly. Yes TOR is slower. This has some other distributed network examples. | |
| Aug 7, 2014 at 23:06 | history | asked | Michael Helwig | CC BY-SA 3.0 |