On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 06:32:56PM +0000, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > So I'm bringing my Tor relay back online
Great! > Short bursts of packet loss like this, if someone > was doing that deliberately with a set pattern, would have been an ideal > way to watermark streams going in and out of the Tor network, to do some > timing correlations. But I'm satisfied that's not what happened here. Actually, there's a really interesting research subfield on *undetectable* watermarks -- that is, injecting a signal that is essentially noise unless you know the key that generated it, and then detecting that signal elsewhere in the network. For papers in this area, check out https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/#ndss09-rainbow https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/#ndss11-swirl https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/#pets13-flow-fingerprints --Roger _______________________________________________ tor-relays mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-relays
