Re:Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses
by londons_explore on Thursday September 17, 2020 @02:46AM
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You need a system which sends constant numbers of bytes/second along every network link.
It would actually be pretty easy to implement for tor (either for the whole network, or individual nodes or routes), but as far as I can see nobody wants to work on it.
It sounds like your almost describing the Nym mixnet
https://youtu.be/_2DQ_iYZi5U?t=1580
The tradeoff is you necessarily need to smooth traffic bursts out to meet the fixed rate and that introduces high latency. Unfortunately most user traffic is bursty and not continuous.
Re:Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses
by tenebrisalietum on Thursday September 17, 2020 @11:30AM
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> Something that breaks big transfers up into a bunch of small transfers, sends them via different routes, and generally makes your experience miserably slow.
Bittorrent has the "break into a bunch of small transfers" part solved. Just need to modify Bittorrent to somehow transfer each piece over a different route.
"Browsing the web over BitTorrent" is an interesting problem statement.
Re:Tor 0day: Finding IP Addresses
by GoblinSlayer on Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:56AM
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Sending data via several routes should increase throughput.
For real anonymity you need something that scrambles and delays your traffic to make it harder to track. Something that breaks big transfers up into a bunch of small transfers, sends them via different routes, and generally makes your experience miserably slow.