Cover Traffic

Paul Syverson syverson at itd.nrl.navy.mil
Sat Apr 15 17:54:38 UTC 2006


On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 07:30:48PM +0200, Nils Vogels wrote:
> On 4/15/06, 2600denver <2600denver at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does this seem like a plausable solution to stop timing and point-to-point
> > attacks?
> 
> Yes it most probably does,

Actually, no it doesn't
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#YouShouldPad

And such attacks can be real
http://www.onion-router.net/Publications.html#locating-hidden-servers

>  but it also effectively slows down the
> entire Tor network bij 66%, at least when you are counting the cover
> traffic in the bandwidth limits that you set for tor traffic.
> 

Yep.

-Paul



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