[p2p-hackers] How is it possible to hide the traffic from a darknet?

[Ryan Barrett]

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005, Barbara Emmert wrote:

> The authors propose that every peer generates an amount of traffic as random
> noise. An external observer will thus have difficulties in discerning signal
> packets from noise packets.

if you're truly serious (read: paranoid) about obscuring traffic, you'll want
to go further than this. the mixmaster class of anonymous remailers have done
solid work in this area for a long time. they might be worth a look.

specifically, type ii mixmaster remailers go far beyond simply adding noise to
the signal. they also prevent well-known vulnerabilities due to message sizes,
timing, and sender/receiver patterns. type iii (mixminion) remailers do even
more.

http://www.iusmentis.com/technology/remailers/index-mix.html
http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/faq.shtml
http://mixminion.net/

-Ryan

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