Interviews: Ask Executive Director Andrew Lewman About Tor and Privacy

samzenpus writes Andrew Lewman wears many hats: biologist, advocate against domestic violence, programmer, Executive Director of the Tor project and a member of the board of directors. He works to preserve the right to speak and read freely online by fighting laws and technology that threaten anonymity. Just how hard that has become is much clearer now that the NSA's interest in Tor has become public. Andrew has agreed to give us some of his time and answer any questions you might have. As usual, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one per post.

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Tor connections

[Anonymous Coward]

Why hasn't TOR moved towards a connectionless routing between the client and the exit node? A permanent connection is being established each time with the same pattern: computer -> entry node -> middle node -> exit node -> website. This can lead to a traffic pattern analysis, given an observer with enough "peer exchange nodes" under his monitoring. In some cases all the connections could be monitored with only country/continent level entry points.
Wouldn't a bunch of state-less P2P like connections between the client and the exit node be better suited against such traffic inspection?