[Wikimedia-l] Disinformation regarding perfect forward secrecy for HTTPS

[Anthony]

On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 1:32 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> George William Herbert wrote:
> >...
> > It would also not be much more effort or customer impact
> > to pad to the next larger 1k size for a random large fraction
> > of transmissions.
>
> Padding each transmission with a random number of bytes, up to say 50
> or 100, might provide a greater defense against fingerprinting while
> saving massive amounts of bandwidth.
>

Or it might provide virtually no defense and not save any bandwidth.