Academics Build a New Tor Client Designed To Beat the NSA

An anonymous reader writes: In response to a slew of new research about network-level attacks against Tor, academics from the U.S. and Israel built a new Tor client called Astoria designed to beat adversaries like the NSA, GCHQ, or Chinese intelligence who can monitor a user's Tor traffic from entry to exit. Astoria differs most significantly from Tor's default client in how it selects the circuits that connect a user to the network and then to the outside Internet. The tool is an algorithm designed to more accurately predict attacks and then securely select relays that mitigate timing attack opportunities for top-tier adversaries.

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Re:israel?

[BlueStrat]

i never seen anything come out of israel that wasnt backdoored.. Icq skype etc
i think showden files had things about this also

I'd be far more likely to trust Israeli-produced tools as opposed to anything from the Five Eyes.

Strat