[Cryptography] NSA and Tor was Updates on Durov charges in France

[efc at disroot.org]

On Sat, 7 Sep 2024, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> On 06/09/2024 09:50, efc--- via cryptography wrote:
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>> On Fri, 6 Sep 2024, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
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>> I usually consider Tor fine for "regular" use cases. And with regular I
>> mean if you want privacy, but are not in conflict with the government.
>> That means you are such "small fry" that no one will bother with you.
>
> The kind of global passive attack the NSA can mount is limited to -
> probably just the NSA. It's a question of availability of traffic data,
> and the NSA has more of that than anyone (except maybe GCHQ).
...
> own node to hide your own traffic is generally a bad idea.

Thank you Peter, very interesting! Do you know anything about small time
competitors such as i2p or that freenet project? I tried i2p once and it
was so slow as to be close to unusable, but would be interested in
anyones opinion about those.

Tor seems to be the giant, so it would only be natural that the attempts
to crack tor would be many, and for the smaller competitors, relatively
few.