[tor-talk] New Astoria Tor client is said to be better than plain Tor

[Yuri]

On 05/22/2015 14:26, Rishab Nithyanand wrote:
> Our evaluation shows that it does quite well to avoid asymmetric
> correlation attacks, but the performance is a bit off from Tor (metric:
> page load times for Alexa Top 100 from 10 countries).

But such attacks exploit bursts of traffic with higher-than-average 
byterate, or frequent changes of the traffic intensity. Would an option 
limiting bandwidth of the tor connection also make it more secure in the 
similar way?

Yuri