Will dummy traffic do anything against the random-walk statistics problems?

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SPORES: Stateless Probabilistic Onion Routing for E-Squads

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Will dummy traffic do anything against the random-walk statistics problems? #63

Open dbosk opened 6 years ago

dbosk commented 6 years ago

Some protocols have experimented with dummy traffic (see the survey). How will these affect that?

At random, drop an incoming onion.
At random, create a route to a random node where the last layer is corrupted (hence that node will drop it).

I don't think any of this will help. Even if you forward a dummy packet every time you receive something to yourself, an abnormal amount of packets will pass through you (more than a uniform distribution).

dbosk commented 5 years ago

Since the destination is a set, we will not exhibit the same problems as a random walk. However, if only a subset is online, then we approach the random walk distribution.