My thought are as following. Why keep entropie where you can have chaos ? I agree that tor is already CHAOS from an exterior point of view, but a little more is never bad :D
Plus, > If statistically it's still easy, even >with a 5 second delay, what's the point in making the software harder >to use if you're not getting the defense you seek? What i was saying is no configuration for the end user. Just dispatch on the first node on the most efficient circuits for the current datatype. 2013/1/9 Tom Ritter <t...@ritter.vg> > On 9 January 2013 10:33, Alexandre Guillioud > <guillioud.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Wooo thank's Tom ! First time using mailing lists, i'm going to like it > :D > > (and it's not a problem to answer from work :DD). > > Ok, so i understand what you're meaning by high/low latency network. > > > > Just, why don't apply this to web browsing ? Can't each node keep packet > up > > to 5 seconde based on random ? 5 second isn't a problem, as tor network > is > > already long to serve pages/packets. > > > > From my point of view, you can't allow some sort of different latency > > paths for clients. > > It will confuse basics users, > > And power users will tweak this to allow only low latency circuits. > > Allowing a client to choose their 'delay' and combining low and high > latency networks is (as I understand it) the basis behind Alpha Mixing > [0]. > > As far as a 5 second window in Tor nodes - off the top of my head, I'm > not sure 5 seconds would really gain anything. If the nodes you're > using (.e.g bridges) aren't used much, 5 seconds doesn't help you. On > the other hand, adding 30 seconds (3 hops, 2 directions) to *each* > request, keeping in mind a page maybe have 20 requests quickly makes > web browsing near-unusuable. > > The other elephant in the room is that *even with* high latency, given > *enough* traffic, you can always link it statistically. Think of it > this way: If I'm sending a packet a day to a recipient, you can see a > packet a second leave my machine, and a packet a day received at the > other end. Even if my message is mixed well, held for an hour and > mixed with other messages - it's not hard after a few days to realize > the correlation. High latency makes this harder, harder still if you > don't have a regular pattern. If statistically it's still easy, even > with a 5 second delay, what's the point in making the software harder > to use if you're not getting the defense you seek? > > I'm not the authority on Tor's design decisions, but those are my thoughts. > > -tom > > [0] http://www.freehaven.net/doc/alpha-mixing/alpha-mixing.pdf > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
