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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:43 PM, benjamin barber <barberb@barberb.com>
wrote:

> I didn't have a problem finding Matryoshka networks but not software
> called "Matryoshka", just as were not using running "onion software",
> some different software use the Matryoshka network method to communicate.
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 9:51 PM, Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 12:02:45AM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
>> >  We also need to take a serious look at TOR, and
>> > without emotional bias, consider if a serious flaw was designed in.
>>
>> "Traffic analysis is the first hole plugged by Matryoshka, but ignored
>> by TOR."
>>
>> I couldn't figure out how to actually fetch this "Matryoshka" software,
>> but it sure looks like another case of somebody not understanding the
>> research field, and thinking that solving the traffic confirmation
>> attack is easy, without actually thinking through the engineering side,
>> the scaling side, or the statistics side.
>>
>> For background see e.g.
>> http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#danezis:pet2004
>>
>> It makes sense that if you think solving the problem is easy, you
>> wonder why Tor hasn't solved it.
>>
>> But even full scale padding, ignoring the practical side of how to get a
>> Tor network that can afford to waste so much bandwidth, doesn't provide
>> protection in the face of active attacks where you induce a gap on one
>> side and then observe the gap on the other side. And it might even be
>> the case that these gaps happen naturally by themselves, due to network
>> congestion and so on, so maybe passive observers will be winners even
>> against a design that does full padding.
>>
>> Also, to make it really work in practice, all users are going to need
>> to pad not just while fetching their web page or iso or whatever, but
>> sufficiently before and after that too, else an attacker can match up
>> start times and end times:
>> http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#murdoch-pet2007
>>
>> This is a great area for further research:
>> http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#ShWa-Timing06
>> http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#active-pet2010
>>
>> tl;dr the whole premise of this person's blog post is flawed, since
>> their design likely does not work as they think it does.
>>
>> --Roger
>>
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