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		hershel on Nov 23, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to launder Bitcoins Does tor conceal the fact that you're using TOR, i.e. peer discovery ? because i got the impression it didn't , that it only did conceal end to end links.

finnw on Nov 24, 2013 | [–]

No. That's what obfsproxy is for.

https://www.torproject.org/projects/obfsproxy.html.en

daurnimator on Nov 24, 2013 | [–]

It doesn't explicitly say if you are the originator vs just some node on the way.

If you run a tor relay you can hide your own traffic in the noise.

dllthomas on Nov 24, 2013 | [–]

"If you run a tor relay you can hide your own traffic in the noise."

Assuming you don't have way more traffic than noise.

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