Riffle: an efficient communication system with strong anonymity

[Georgi Guninski]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 11:43:48AM +0300, Georgi Guninski wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 07:33:40PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> > http://news.mit.edu/2016/stay-anonymous-online-0711
> 
> Interesting. So far read only this (it is for dummies).
> 
> Is riffle resistant to active timing attacks (possibly from internal
> nodes)?
> 
> Can sufficiently many malicious nodes cause total DOS? (I suspect they
> will decrease performance at least).

Two days ago I spammed the authors of the Riffle paper with this, no
reply so far.

My guess is it is vulnerable to active timing attacks, they are so
generic. Not sure at all jitter is solution.