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I took a shotgun approach to it with clacks-p2p. I thought, any directed attempt to send data from A to B is going to leave traces of a path. With enough comman
by parksy 6y ago
I took a shotgun approach to it with clacks-p2p. I thought, any directed attempt to send data from A to B is going to leave traces of a path. With enough command of the network you'll be able to figure out from various side-channels who is communicating with whom.
Clacks just randomly sends stuff between peers, it's up to the peers to decide if it's relevant or not. With encryption and payload size obfuscation there would be no way to know which node is directing communications with another node.
Anyway, obviously the drawback is performance. It might take a while for all your packets to reconvene on the intended target.
- labawi 6y agoIt seems to me, you still have to compromise between having a relatively small number of participants, very high and expensive overhead/throughput and sharing your network with potential attackers, which could observe the network by observing how their own data travels. I think it could work, but only for niche uses or low threat models.