"Anonymity is considered a big part of freedom of speech now," says Albert Kwon, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and one of the paper's first authors. At the Usenix Security Symposium this summer, they show that an adversary could infer a hidden server's location, or the source of the information reaching a given Tor user, by analyzing the traffic patterns of encrypted data passing through a single computer in the all-volunteer Tor network.įortunately, the same paper also proposes defenses, which representatives of the Tor project say they are evaluating for possible inclusion in future versions of the Tor software.
Researchers at MIT and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) have now demonstrated a vulnerability in Tor's design.
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