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   by pulls 2y ago

   Yeah :( It's similar to how encryption was viewed as too expensive a decade or two ago. Today, it is a necessity. Seeing how available bandwidth keeps growing to accommodate things like video, I hope traffic analysis defenses won'
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   by pulls 2y ago

   Yes, for sure. As a defender, you have two main tools: dummy packets (bandwidth) and delaying packets (latency). Padding-only defenses will indirectly delay normal (non-padding) packets by filling the connection with padding. You want to ex
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   by pulls 2y ago

   Nope, "AI". The academic community working on one very active research area of traffic analysis, called website fingerprinting, made significant leaps with NNs over traditional ML in 2018: "Deep Fingerprinting: Undermining We
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   by pulls 2y ago

   Yes, it's significant. Unfortunately, there are fundamental trade-offs here between protection and bandwidth and/or latency. Another aspect is energy: keeping a connection "alive" by regularly ensuring traffic on a conne
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   by pulls 10y ago

   For what it's worth, as part of work on the effects of DNS on Tor's anonymity [1] we visited Alexa top-1M in April 2016, recording all DNS requests made by Tor Browser for each site. We found that 6.4% of primary domains (the site