Flipchan writes: > So i was thinking about timing attacks and simular attacks where time is a > Big factor when deanonymizing users . > and created a Little script that will generate a ipv4 address and send a get > request to that address > https://github.com/flipchan/Nohidy/blob/master/traffic_gen.py then delay x > amount of seconds and do it again. This will probelly make it harder for the > attacker to fingerprint the users output data due to the increased data flow > coming out from the server. > > So to protect against traffic timing attacks and simular would be to generate > More data.
This is called padding traffic and it's been studied a bit in relation to systems like Tor. Roger has often said that a conclusion of the studies was that it's hard to get a lot of privacy benefit from most padding schemes, but it might be good to know what the state of the art is in padding attacks and defenses. -- Seth Schoen <sch...@eff.org> Senior Staff Technologist https://www.eff.org/ Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/join 815 Eddy Street, San Francisco, CA 94109 +1 415 436 9333 x107 -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
