Traffic Analysis
Robert A. Costner
pooh at efga.org
Thu Oct 2 20:35:40 PDT 1997
I'm curious about traffic analysis capability. While I don't know the
exact figures involved, I'd say that Cracker throws away about 10% of the
messages it receives. Admittedly, these are probably not encrypted
messages (I don't know. Humans do not get to read the messages.) Does
this make traffic analysis more difficult?
On the other side, if Cracker were to send out more messages that it takes
in, or just replace these thrown away messages with random noise messages,
perhaps encrypted, would this foil traffic analysis?
Or suppose Redneck sent each nym an encrypted message each day, or more
often? This would be a pure nonsense message just sent out to foil traffic
analysis. Since the server generated the nonsense message internally,
there would be no matching incoming message for Redneck.
-- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746
Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh at efga.org
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