Re:Vuvuzela: Metadata-private messaging
by kodablah on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @04:42PM
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I understand the traffic analysis part. I'm talking about individual MITM (e.g. an ISP) or tracking DNS operators. Can my ISP tell the endpoint I'm connecting to? With Tor, my source and destination are anonymized and that provides a level of metadata privacy (strength is debatable of course). I'm wondering if Vuvuzela, whilst comparing to Tor, offers less metadata privacy on this point.
Noise to thwart traffic analysis is wholly unrelated to endpoint obfuscation.
Someone watching all traffic will know that you're using Vuvuzela, but won't be able to figure out who you're communicating with. In Tor, generally if someone can see all traffic they can rapidly trace communication links-- it's encrypted, but the fact that you send packets and induce a chain of a few other packets to the target is a dead giveaway.