[tor-dev] Is it possible to specify voluntary delays in my Tor client?

[Virgil Griffith]

I understand that the original Tor model is to set low-latency and
low-jitter as a constraint as to permit things like interactive
web-browsing etc.  And yes, I presume Tor will always have this as a
constraint.

I am asking if:
(1) There currently exists some way I can specify in my torrc to
sacrifice some of these in exchange for a little greater anonymity
protection (say I want to slowly leak a file, etc.)

(2) If not, how difficult would be it to shoe-horn this into the
current tor model?  In short, if it's not too difficult, I can look
into finding funding it.

-V

On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 1:37 PM, grarpamp <grarpamp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Virgil Griffith <i at virgil.gr> wrote:
>> I.e., if I want the extra resistance to traffic analysis that higher latency
>> connections provide, is there a way to specify that in my Tor config?
>
> Higher latency, in and of itself, does not provide any resistance to
> traffic analysis.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latency_(engineering)
>
> Higher global jitter might help, but circuit orientation at
> guards and exits through to the clients seems to nullify that.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jitter
>
> For which an idea may to become packet switching, which
> is really no longer Tor.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_switching
>
> Link padding seems the next real step but I've not put enough
> reading to it, only have idea to read about. Nor do I yet review about
> Tor padding proposal as sufficient or not, sorry.
>
> As it is not the Tor original model design maybe some other
> network will take this analysis / padding issue up before then.
> I've no idea.
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