Time to start adding a random amount of extra packets with each request? :)
We would need to be very careful to not cause detectable entropy changes
which is not trivial!
Perhaps we promote the deployment of SPDY/QUIC which interleaves requests?
~Matt Walker
Wikimedia Foundation
Fundraising Technology Team
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:01 PM, James Alexander
<jalexander(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Which kind of ignores the issue that encrypting with ssl doesn't do a
> > lot against traffic analysis, when its publicly known how big the
> > pages you're downloading are, and how many images/other assets they
> > have on them. NSA certainly has the resources to do this if they want.
> >
> >
> > If you can do this sort of thing:
> >
>
http://blog.ioactive.com/2012/02/ssl-traffic-analysis-on-google-maps.html
> > against google maps, I imagine it should be much simpler to do
> > something like that for Wikipedia. (Our data has more variation in it,
> > and the data is all publicly available)
> >
> > --bawolff
> >
>
Time to start adding a random amount of extra packets with each request? :)
>
> James Alexander
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