Proposal for making Tor TLS stand out less

[Daniel Franganillo]

El 01/02/11 16:37, cmeclax-sazri escribió:
> Currently Tor traffic is sent in packets of 512 bytes (which "setevents bw"
> shows as 586), which makes it easy to recognize even though it's all TLS
> encrypted. I propose implementing the following on each connection from one
> Tor node to another:
> 1. Allocate a 2048-byte buffer.
> 2. When the relay has a packet to send, it puts it in the buffer, then picks a
> random number from 1 to the number of bytes in the buffer or 1426, whichever
> is less, and sends out that many bytes.
> 3. If the number of bytes remaining in the buffer is more than 1536, repeat
> step 2.
> 4. If no packet is ready to go out for a second, send out whatever is in the
> buffer.
> 1536=2048-512; 1426=1500+512-586.
>
> cmeclax
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Is it really so infrequent to send SSL chunks of size 512B?

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