1 Filename: xxx-hide-platform.txt
2 Title: Hide Tor Platform Information
5 Author: Jacob Appelbaum
10 Hiding Tor Platform Information
14 The current Tor program publishes its specific Tor version and related OS
15 platform information. This information could be misused by an attacker.
17 0.1 Current Implementation
19 Currently, the Tor binary sends data that looks like the following:
21 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc (r14597) on Darwin Power Macintosh
22 Tor 0.1.2.19 on Windows XP Service Pack 3 [workstation] {terminal services,
27 It would be useful to allow a user to configure the disclosure of such
28 information. Such a change would be an option in the torrc file like so:
32 1.1 Suggested default behavior in the future
34 If a user would like to disclose this information, they could configure their