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rsync on Nov 14, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: On the Effectiveness of Traffic Analysis Against T...

Can't the Tor network introduce random perturbations into the traffic flow at every hop, thus defeating this kind of fingerprinting ?

I know that it does not do this, but couldn't it ?

ufo on Nov 14, 2014 [–]

From what I understood in the OP, Top doesn't add that kind of noise to keep latency down (latency is already high due to the extra hops and would get even worse if you added perturbations)

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