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What's the next step to protect against traffic analysis? Are there any VPN providers that provide stochastic masking to defeat traffic analysis? Is TOR working
by nightpool 5y ago
What's the next step to protect against traffic analysis? Are there any VPN providers that provide stochastic masking to defeat traffic analysis? Is TOR working on mitigations? A quick search turns up https://blog.torproject.org/new-low-cost-traffic-analysis-attacks-mitigations https://blog.torproject.org/new-low-cost-traffic-analysis-at..., which discusses the use of fixed-size padding in TOR protocol headers, but it's mostly focused on traffic analysis using then-commercially available data sources (for example, Real Time Bidding logs & DNS queries), and considers full netflow data a "high-effort" attack available only to "intelligence agencies". It seems like this may need to be reassessed.
EDIT: looks like this is addressed to some extent in the FAQ for Tor https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#SendPadding https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#SendPadding.