On 11/29/2013 01:11 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Phil Karn" <k...@philkarn.net> > >> I've been trying to think of ways to thwart large scale traffic >> analysis, and in a unicast network it's really not easy without a lot >> of extra traffic (think TOR). > > Well, in a story in MIT Tech Review this week, it's mentioned that IETF is > considering baking TOR into the base level of the Internet, so if (like me) > you think that's a pretty unmanageable, inefficient approach, you might want > to chime in now... >
Well, it's inefficient compared to direct unicasting but I can't think of a much better way to do it. And if you really want security against dragnet surveillance, and I think we do, we'll find a way to manage it. Hey, it's not like fiber bandwidth and CPU cycles are hard to find these days.