[Cryptography] traffic analysis -> let's write an RFC?

[Ben Laurie]

On 27 January 2015 at 23:13, John Gilmore <gnu at toad.com> wrote:

> Jerry Leichter wrote:
> > > Different network designs can also help.  If you own the link and both
> of
> > > its ends, it costs you exactly the same to send continuous random bits
> as
> > > to leave the line idle.
>
> Ben Laurie wrote:
> > Yeah, but ... who can realistically afford that bandwidth?
>
> Your employer Google can - it owns the fibers among its data centers
> (and many other fibers, I believe).  Clearly, Jerry's remark ("If you
> own the link") was addressed to link-level encryption.
>

Clearly the idea was you design your network so that you do own the link.
Which brings me back to my question (even Google cannot afford that much
network, I suspect).
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