F2F UDP mesh net prototype proof of concept

[Zenaan Harkness]

This appears to be a great paper thats right on topic - thank you.

Will have time to read tonight. Offhand, in first 2 pages they use term
"synchronous network" - does anyone know, exactly, what they mean by this?

TIA


On Wednesday, October 23, 2019, Punk - Stasi 2.0 <punks at tfwno.gf> wrote:
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> This attack reveals what seems to be a fallacy in theoretical definitions
of security.
> For example, in [28], the authors state that if links are padded or
bandwidth is limited
> to a constant rate, one can ignore passive eavesdroppers8. This is
technically correct if
> a passive eavesdropper is defined as someone who cannot access the
network as a reg-
> ular user and compute timings on the network (which is implied by the
definition used
> in most theoretical work). However this attack model is not very
interesting and defi-
> nitely misleading. The latency attack pointed out above and the next
attack we present
> demonstrate that if an attacker can simply compute timings (which is as
passive as one
> can expect an attacker to be in practice), or use the system, link
padding or bandwidth
> limiting links to a constant rate does not protect the system against
easy traffic analysis
> attacks.
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