On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 21:48:45 +0000 Peter Fairbrother <peter@tsto.co.uk> wrote:
The Tor rationale for requiring low latency was to make it more user-friendly and also thereby increase (innocent) traffic. Unfortunately that came at the cost of easier traffic analysis, as only the traffic passed within the last 4-5 seconds need be considered. They tried to balance that out - more traffic plus greater usability vs easier analysis - and came up with a system which had some perhaps-useful properties.
I don't think they balanced anything. The connections go as fast as possible - there's no reclocking of packets, no mixing, no nothing.
I don't know whether Paul would have worked on a public system which was impervious to NSA and USN - but the question never arose.
well, they worked on mixing networks for email. There are tons of 'papers' on that. But I guess they never set up/promoted a 'high latency' public network. So arguably syverson at least 'worked' on the theory of a system that could resist attacks from his accomplices (nsa).
Tor would be good enough to defeat third-world governments, which was both his and Tor's stated goal,
stated where?
and Tor could never defeat The Man.
openly acknowledges it...in papers that no-one reads, while advertising tor as a means to
"Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis."
Is that a quote from Paul?
that's the slogan that appeared on tor's site for 10 years maybe? They changed it some months ago though. 2007 http://web.archive.org/web/20071011223019/http://www.torproject.org:80/ "Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, " 2008 http://web.archive.org/web/20081231081100/http://www.torproject.org:80/ "Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis" 2011 http://web.archive.org/web/20110101111624/http://www.torproject.org:80/ "Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis." 2018 http://web.archive.org/web/20181231204724/https://www.torproject.org/ "Defend yourself against network surveillance and traffic analysis." etc
It doesn't sound like the chap I knew. Who wasn't a scum-master, except perhaps to the swabbies?
Heck, Roger and Nick were wanna-be-heroes.
Peter Fairbrother