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Yeah :( It's similar to how encryption was viewed as too expensive a decade or two ago. Today, it is a necessity. Seeing how available bandwidth keeps growing to accommodate things…

Yes, for sure. As a defender, you have two main tools: dummy packets (bandwidth) and delaying packets (latency). Padding-only defenses will indirectly delay normal (non-padding) pa…

Nope, "AI". The academic community working on one very active research area of traffic analysis, called website fingerprinting, made significant leaps with NNs over traditional ML …

Yes, it's significant. Unfortunately, there are fundamental trade-offs here between protection and bandwidth and/or latency. Another aspect is energy: keeping a connection "alive" …

For what it's worth, as part of work on the effects of DNS on Tor's anonymity [1] we visited Alexa top-1M in April 2016, recording all DNS requests made by Tor Browser for each sit…