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Re: [tor-talk] The Aqua design



On 08.06.16 00:02, Philipp Winter wrote:
On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 02:34:22PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
You need fulltime regulated fill traffic, within which, your traffic resides.
However, Aqua cannot protect against long-term intersection attacks and
the authors haven't really thought about incentives for joining the
network; I could see the network only being used for illegal file
sharing, making it an attractive target for blocking with low collateral
damage.
The incentive is improving anonymity, of course. It's better to fill a connection with *useful* traffic. Does Aqua allow to mix web browser traffic with file-sharing traffic?

BTW, do you know a layman's introduction to long-term intersection attack?
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