On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 04:25 -0400, grarpamp wrote: > Nodes usually have a max bandwitch set. > Nodes often comsume less than this. > All node to node traffic is encrypted. > Perhaps implement a random stream generator > that only runs when it or its chosen path has > free bandwidth, tags its traffic as chaff, pipes > it through some number of nodes, or if it has > idle neighbors, and ultimtely sink it somewhere. > It would be even harder to follow an actual client > dl/ul stream if things were maybe udp with the stream reassembly > info inside each onion wrapped cell. Or something > like that. No doubt this is old ideas.
Indeed it is, and it's my understanding that this doesn't really work. More astute minds than I can explain in full, but you can render this sort of safeguard useless quite easily.