On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Virgil Griffith i@virgil.gr wrote:
I.e., if I want the extra resistance to traffic analysis that higher latency connections provide, is there a way to specify that in my Tor config?
Higher latency, in and of itself, does not provide any resistance to traffic analysis.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_(engineering)
Higher global jitter might help, but circuit orientation at guards and exits through to the clients seems to nullify that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter
For which an idea may to become packet switching, which is really no longer Tor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching
Link padding seems the next real step but I've not put enough reading to it, only have idea to read about. Nor do I yet review about Tor padding proposal as sufficient or not, sorry.
As it is not the Tor original model design maybe some other network will take this analysis / padding issue up before then. I've no idea.