Re:Bitcoin over Tor isn't a good idea
by belorn on Friday October 24, 2014 @01:39AM
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As a side note about "Anyone can start a Tor exit relay, and setting up a MITM proxy on it is trivial".
Tor project has a project that sends out probes to identify rouge nodes, so the trivial and obvious form of MITM that changes data en-route are equally trivial caught and blacklisted. People should still be aware that sending secret data in plaintext on any network is a bad idea tm, but any security analyst need to incorporate the whole picture.
Tor project has a project that sends out probes to identify rouge nodes, so the trivial and obvious form of MITM that changes data en-route are equally trivial caught and blacklisted. People should still be aware that sending secret data in plaintext on any network is a bad idea tm, but any security analyst need to incorporate the whole picture.