Re: [tor-talk] Network Analysis of Overlay Networks, Capabilities, Fill Traffic [was: VPN less safe?]

2016-01-27 Thread juan
On Tue, 26 Jan 2016 18:49:53 -0500 grarpamp wrote: >> virtually all the world's infrastructure is 'compromised'? > The USA and Soviets have decades experience tapping cables > around the globe in a cold war sense. I think the paper is mostly referring to what

[tor-talk] Network Analysis of Overlay Networks, Capabilities, Fill Traffic [was: VPN less safe?]

2016-01-26 Thread grarpamp
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 3:09 PM, juan wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jan 2016 10:25:20 -0500 > Paul Syverson wrote: > > >> "20,000 In League Under the Sea: Anonymous Communication, Trust, >> MLATs, and Undersea Cables" available at >>

Re: [tor-talk] Network Analysis of Overlay Networks, Capabilities, Fill Traffic [was: VPN less safe?]

2016-01-26 Thread Cain Ungothep
> It would be harder for that analysis to succeed against networks > that filled between all the nodes with fill traffic when unused and > not needed for user traffic. (And in the sense of Tor, between clients > and some number of guards). But that's hard to design so that it > is functional. And