[tor-talk] Matryoshka: Are TOR holes intentional?

[ncl at cock.li]

grarpamp:
> http://shofarnexus.com/Blog-2015-01-13

Under "The hole in TOR":
> If you see a 456 byte message sent from computer A and a moment later
> the same or similar size message arrive at computer B you could draw
> an obvious conclusion.

But, Tor cells are a fixed-size of 512 bytes:
https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#CellSize

Regarding timing attacks: doesn't the "natural" deviation in latency
over the internet, and the size of the tor network, make correlation a
bit more difficult (for short-lived connections at least)?