[tor-talk] The Aqua design

[me at beroal.in.ua]

On 08.06.16 00:02, Philipp Winter wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 02:34:22PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>> You need fulltime regulated fill traffic, within which, your traffic resides.
> However, Aqua cannot protect against long-term intersection attacks and
> the authors haven't really thought about incentives for joining the
> network; I could see the network only being used for illegal file
> sharing, making it an attractive target for blocking with low collateral
> damage.
The incentive is improving anonymity, of course. It's better to fill a 
connection with *useful* traffic. Does Aqua allow to mix web browser 
traffic with file-sharing traffic?

BTW, do you know a layman's introduction to long-term intersection attack?