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

[David Stainton]

The Differences Between Onion Routing and Mix Networks
https://ritter.vg/blog-mix_and_onion_networks.html



On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:42 AM, Virgil Griffith <i at virgil.gr> wrote:
> 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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