From the course: Tor and the Dark Web: Exploring the Basics
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Circuit shaping - Tor Browser Tutorial
From the course: Tor and the Dark Web: Exploring the Basics
Circuit shaping
- [Instruction] Circuit reconstruction attacks depend upon an adversary compromising large portions of the Tor network and then hoping that their target selects a circuit that uses only to those compromised nodes. But what if an attacker could control the nodes that a victim selects and instead of using random nodes, the victim chooses to use only compromised nodes? This is an attack known as circuit shaping. The attacker compromises the victim's computer in some way and then tampers with their Tor software causing them to select circuits built exclusively from nodes that are under the attacker's control. Now circuit shaping isn't easy. It requires either hacking into the victim's computer and altering the Tor software that's already there. Or tricking the end user into installing a compromised version of Tor, but if it's successful this attack will completely undermine the security of all Tor communications from that system. As an end user, the best protection against circuit shaping…
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