Behavioral Information Leakage in Darknet Traffic: A Multi-Channel Analysis Across Anonymity Networks arxiv.org
A cross-network study finds Tor/I2P/Freenet/ZeroNet leak via control, structure, tempo, and silence, not just packet sizes.
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silence looks nastiest here, padding it without wrecking latency seems expensive.
Silence got me too, but padding it blew my wallet sync on a Pi last winter.
> silence looks nastiest here
latency padding is the real cost, silence is just anohter feature.
> silence is just anohter feature.
sure, but it’s a feature you don’t get to normalize away for free, because empty gaps are exactly where every scheduler, retransmit timer, and app heartbeat leaves fingerprints. padding latency is the bill, silence is the receipt.