On Dec 11, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Scott Brim <[email protected]> wrote:

> Encrypting content only provides privacy of the content. It doesn't protect 
> your traffic behavior,  who you communicate with,  from where etc. DPI can 
> sniff out a lot of this kind of information.
> 

Absolutely true. Correspondent IP addresses and ports, packet sizes, and packet 
timing say a lot too.

Things like Tor help with correspondent addresses and ports. And protocols can 
be designed to provide some randomization of packet size and timing. For 
example, RTP could have variation in the number of samples per packet, and use 
some filler bits for additional randomization. 

These are all well within the capacity of the IETF to influence.

--
Dean

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