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Show HN: Gitnonymous – Contribute anonymously to Git repositories over Tor (github.com/chr15m)
46 points by chr15m on Nov 24, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


A few things:

This seems to really be a pseudonym management tool, which is useful, but technically not anonymous.

A few information leaks still present:

* Timezone (narrows down location)

* Commit times (narrows down sleeping/working hours)

* SSH client version (shows Linux distro version and patch level)


Time data could/should be randomized (can still be ordered, but distribute regularly over the day). Couple this with pushing commits at random times in a defined timezone and you probably can get rid of most time leaks?


You want to make at least a 24 hour window of plausible commit time, which is constrained by the previous pull time (assuming it is from someone else and not obfuscated), and the push time.

I would push at midnight UTC that is at least 24 hours after the most recent pull and set commit time = push time.


Why do you need time ordering when you have an ordered tree structure ooi?


This is great feedback. I will add some notes to the README and investigate some possible strategies for mitigating these information leaks. Thank you!




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