The TOR Attack and Students from N&IS 2011 - 2012 Class

Hi to all

The operational cryptology lab has designed a new powerful attack against the TOR anonymity network.
We effectively succeed in taking the control over a significant part of the TOR network bypassing the encryption in a transparent way.

This work will be presented at two major hacking conferences:

• H2HC 2011 in Sao Paulo, Brazil (October 29-30th, 2011).
• PacSec 2011 in Tokyo, Japan (November 9-10th, 2011).

A significant part of this attack has been implemented by two students of the N&IS 2010 - 2011 Class:

• Leonard Mutembei from Tanzania 
• Oluwaseun Remi-Omosowon from Nigeria. He has implemented two libraries (spinning attack code and Ruby lib to automate the recovery of hidden OR [relay bridges]). Moreover he has designed the Google Earth animations which illustrate the whole attack.

All stuff (slides, paper, lib, animations...) will be released by mid-november.
The N&IS students have done an excellent job and we are very proud of their results.


New exciting projects will be proposed to the new N&IS 2011 - 2012 class.

Regards
E.F.

N&IS Mastere 2011 - 2012 Class

Hi to all

The N&IS 2010 - 2011 class has now finished and the new N&IS class 2011 - 2012 has started the courses. We have eleven students from

• France (7)
• Mexico (1)
• Columbia (1)
• Tanzania (1)
• India (1)

We have one more student from Pakistan waiting for his visa.

Have a nice day

E.F.