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That size-inference side channel leak has been patched for years, random padding is added between hops to mitigate this. It is large files / DDoS going over th
by Jerrrry 4y ago
That size-inference side channel leak has been patched for years, random padding is added between hops to mitigate this.
It is large files / DDoS going over the network that is still hard to obfuscate.
Which is why TOR is intentionally slow, especially when requesting larger files. If it wasn't, you could watch the lump of data traverse across the pipe.
source: n/a
- HackerNCoder 4y agosource: padding spec, https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/padding-spec.txt https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/padding-spec....
- Jerrrry 4y agoThank you. My brain is very damp but knew it was somewhere.