Re: packet traffic analysis

2005-10-31 Thread John Denker
In the context of: >>If your plaintext consists primarily of small packets, you should set the MTU >>of the transporter to be small. This will cause fragmentation of the >>large packets, which is the price you have to pay. Conversely, if your >>plaintext consists primarily of large packets, yo

packet traffic analysis

2005-10-26 Thread John Denker
Travis H. wrote: Part of the problem is using a packet-switched network; if we had circuit-based, then thwarting traffic analysis is easy; you just fill the link with random garbage when not transmitting packets. OK so far ... There are two problems with this; one, getting enough random