Re: [Freenet-dev] Why don't we get real updating done?

[Ian Clarke]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 04:28:51PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> Yes. But we will close the MITM hole before then. And we like to pretend
> that "traffic analysis" doesn't excist...

Traffic analysis does exist, and is easily countered, but only by
making Freenet useless.  We could make nodes delay messages for a
random period of time, and somehow make all messages the same size
by breaking them up, but this would mean people waiting hours, even
days, for a request to return from Freenet.

It would be interesting to see just what could be figured out if the
entire Freenet could be monitored (ie. message paths could be
monitored, along with message size, possibly with the occasional
compromised node sprinkled in). I think that it would require an
immense amount of effort to learn anything interesting about
anybody's activities.

Ian.

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