What are some weaknesses in the Tor protocol?
Channel: internet-class
Date: 2016-10-25

Tor is a useful tool, but it is hardly foolproof. A recent attack launched by researchers at Carnegie Mellon highlighted some of the weaknesses with the system. In particular, in a Tor like system control over a large number of participating nodes can be used to deanonymize traffic and potentially link users with the sites that they visit.

Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).

Part of the https://www.internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.