[tor-dev] Is it possible to specify voluntary delays in my Tor client?

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 05:37:52 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Virgil Griffith <i at 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.


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