I remember a decade and a half ago, a network protocol which was flat , statistically, on internet traffic metrics (bandwidth expensive as even with 0 traffic e

I remember a decade and a half ago, a network protocol which was flat , statistically, on internet traffic metrics (bandwidth expensive as even with 0 traffic encrypted blank noise was isochronously transfered). It was at the time rumors spread about statistical attacks on tor with man-in-the-middle agents and corrupted nodes. The rumors said the author of the published thesis was asked nicely by "authorities" to un-publish it...