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From Slashdot yesterday:
MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data (softpedia.com)
Posted by timothy on Sunday December 13, 2015 @08:22AM from the can't-we-just-use-trolls? dept.
An anonymous reader writes with word that MIT researchers "created an alternative to Tor, a network messaging system called Vuvuzela that pollutes the network with dummy data so the NSA won't know who's talking to who." Initial tests show the systems overhead adding a 44-second delay, but the network can work fine and preserve anonymity even it has more than 50% of servers compromised.
I've never used TOR, it'll be interesting to see how difficult this is to set up once it gets out in to the wild. I find the preservation of anonymity when half of the network is compromised to be quite interesting. I have no idea if 44 second latency is good or bad.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/mit-creates-untraceable-anonymous-messaging-system-called-vuvuzela-497537.shtml
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/12/13/1522224/mit-creates-tor-alternative-that-floods-networks-with-fake-data
MIT Creates Tor Alternative That Floods Networks With Fake Data (softpedia.com)
Posted by timothy on Sunday December 13, 2015 @08:22AM from the can't-we-just-use-trolls? dept.
An anonymous reader writes with word that MIT researchers "created an alternative to Tor, a network messaging system called Vuvuzela that pollutes the network with dummy data so the NSA won't know who's talking to who." Initial tests show the systems overhead adding a 44-second delay, but the network can work fine and preserve anonymity even it has more than 50% of servers compromised.
I've never used TOR, it'll be interesting to see how difficult this is to set up once it gets out in to the wild. I find the preservation of anonymity when half of the network is compromised to be quite interesting. I have no idea if 44 second latency is good or bad.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/mit-creates-untraceable-anonymous-messaging-system-called-vuvuzela-497537.shtml
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/15/12/13/1522224/mit-creates-tor-alternative-that-floods-networks-with-fake-data
