Mike Perry:
I've inserted a couple of corrections and clarifications below. I'm leaving original text fully quoted for the archive.
[nah. *snip*]
I've converted this text and a few other clarifications and additions into something that more closely resembles a Tor proposal.
It now lives at: https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/mikeperry/torspec.git/blob/refs/heads/mul...
I'm really rather excited about the Adaptive Padding primitives in particular, especially with our extensions to the original idea. I think it has a lot of promise to be extremely effective, tunable, and flexible as a traffic fingerprinting defense.
Those of you who know just how crazy^Wambitious I am also know that I think it will actually impede end-to-end correlation as well (at least, for short-lived/bursty web-like traffic). But we'll cross that bridge when it starts burning. First, let's put this traffic fingerprinting problem out of its misery :)