Paul Syverson wrote:
Since Tor's inception (must be getting ion for 10 years now) it has been getting faster year after year, this is due to network speed and bandwidth increases, which have been about a 200 fold (e.g. speeds of 100+Kbps max 2003 to 20+Mbps today).Tor doesn't do any batching or delaying. This is just another way you could be identified by timing attacks. Tor provides no resistance to timing attacks, and so far there are no countermeasures that have been identified as working against a passive, much less active, adversary without imposing unacceptably high overhead or limitations.
OK, there have been some increases in web page byte size but it not more than 10 fold.
That means a real speed increase of at least 10 fold. So perhaps Tor developers should start putting in some "timing attack" protection. It seems to me that the time is right. What is holding them back? Are they afraid of global big brother complaining they cannot identify users at will? Anonymous should mean anonymous, no?
!< Most have these limitations and still don't work. See the blog post http://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough
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