Re padding see https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/TorFAQ#Youshouldsendpaddingsoitsmoresecure. Some related papers in the bibliography page: http://freehaven.net/anonbib/topic.html
For the use case mentioned: being one of 40 to 150 people using Tor (or BitCoin) in a low tech country like Uganda could be enough to get you under surveillance, at which point no amount of padding will help you, so hopefully you would be using some method to hide that. Also, an adversary in a regional language area would first try to narrow down who everyone in the web forum is (or find their friends) in real life based on their writing style and content, even if users werent required to register and sign in to post. _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
