On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 07:30:48PM +0200, Nils Vogels wrote:
> On 4/15/06, 2600denver < 2600denver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Does this seem like a plausable solution to stop timing and point-to-point
> > attacks?
>
> Yes it most probably does,
Actually, no it doesn't
http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#YouShouldPad
And such attacks can be real
http://www.onion-router.net/Publications.html#locating-hidden-servers
> but it also effectively slows down the
> entire Tor network bij 66%, at least when you are counting the cover
> traffic in the bandwidth limits that you set for tor traffic.
>
Yep.
-Paul