[Cryptography] traffic analysis
John Gilmore
gnu at toad.com
Thu Jan 29 18:39:10 EST 2015
> > If we have a continually full channel full of fulsome noise, how does the receiver
> > distinguish valid traffic from nothing?
Here is one way that doesn't even require encryption, merely authentication:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaffing_and_winnowing
Rivest designed this as more of a defense against the export controls
on encryption, than as a serious alternative to encrypting your packets,
but it can be used in combination with encryption to aid in traffic
analysis.
John
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