cracking TOR

[TheBean]

I just watched a video on the computerphile channel about Tor routing. they mentioned that a weakpoint is that you can figure out what a person is doing based on the scheduling of the packets. my question is that why cant the client send fake packets through the network so that there is a constant stream of packets. that would make it impossible to figure out where you connect and what you do there. 

[WereCatf]

4 minutes ago, Saksham said:

my question is that why cant the client send fake packets through the network so that there is a constant stream of packets.

I do not think there is any technical reason for why they couldn't do that, they just aren't doing it now/yet.

[Alex Atkin UK]

On 4/7/2019 at 7:35 PM, WereCatf said:

I do not think there is any technical reason for why they couldn't do that, they just aren't doing it now/yet.

Well for one thing Tor can be dog slow as it is due to how the routing works, adding dummy traffic to the mix it would be like dialup.

[WereCatf]

1 minute ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Well for one thing Tor can be dog slow as it is due to how the routing works, adding dummy traffic to the mix it would be like dialup.

Yes, but that's a practical reason, not a technical one.

[Alex Atkin UK]

27 minutes ago, WereCatf said:

Yes, but that's a practical reason, not a technical one.

The really important details usually are practical limitations rather than technical.

There's no technical reason we can't all have Gigabit fibre and insanely fast PCs.  Its always the practical details that get in the way.

[WereCatf]

3 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

The really important details usually are practical limitations rather than technical.

There's no technical reason we can't all have Gigabit fibre and insanely fast PCs.  Its always the practical details that get in the way.

Um, yes, I know. I'm not sure what your point is; I do know the difference between technical and practical.

[GabeThePCHelper]

TOR is already slow, adding more traffic like @Alex Atkin UKsaid would make it slow, and TOR inherently isn't fully safe.

 

Use a VPN.. sheesh.

[Alex Atkin UK]

3 hours ago, WereCatf said:

Um, yes, I know. I'm not sure what your point is; I do know the difference between technical and practical.

My point was that in a case like this you could argue that the practical limitation is also a technical one, because its how the technology works that makes it impractical.

Its almost always about writing a technical solution to get around a practical limitation.

[mineblaster]

On 4/10/2019 at 7:03 AM, GabeThePCHelper said:

TOR is already slow, adding more traffic like @Alex Atkin UKsaid would make it slow, and TOR inherently isn't fully safe.

 

Use a VPN.. sheesh.

both would be better