The Differences Between Onion Routing and Mix Networks https://ritter.vg/blog-mix_and_onion_networks.html
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Virgil Griffith <i...@virgil.gr> wrote: > I understand that the original Tor model is to set low-latency and > low-jitter as a constraint as to permit things like interactive > web-browsing etc. And yes, I presume Tor will always have this as a > constraint. > > I am asking if: > (1) There currently exists some way I can specify in my torrc to > sacrifice some of these in exchange for a little greater anonymity > protection (say I want to slowly leak a file, etc.) > > (2) If not, how difficult would be it to shoe-horn this into the > current tor model? In short, if it's not too difficult, I can look > into finding funding it. > > -V > > On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:37 PM, grarpamp <grarp...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Virgil Griffith <i...@virgil.gr> wrote: >>> I.e., if I want the extra resistance to traffic analysis that higher latency >>> connections provide, is there a way to specify that in my Tor config? >> >> Higher latency, in and of itself, does not provide any resistance to >> traffic analysis. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_(engineering) >> >> Higher global jitter might help, but circuit orientation at >> guards and exits through to the clients seems to nullify that. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter >> >> For which an idea may to become packet switching, which >> is really no longer Tor. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching >> >> Link padding seems the next real step but I've not put enough >> reading to it, only have idea to read about. Nor do I yet review about >> Tor padding proposal as sufficient or not, sorry. >> >> As it is not the Tor original model design maybe some other >> network will take this analysis / padding issue up before then. >> I've no idea. >> _______________________________________________ >> tor-dev mailing list >> tor-dev@lists.torproject.org >> https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list tor-dev@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev