Tor is the revered messaging system used by whistle-blower and drug monger alike to shroud on the internet , and as a result , it getssome attention from natural law enforcement . A new system proposed by a team of MIT resesarchers offers an option , using fake dealings to hide the real content within .
telephone Vuvuzela , it uses more dummy traffic and less encryption to hide data from user . The system relies on a chain of servers : users send their message to the first waiter , and the message is then passed on from server to waiter , each layer add another unit of ammunition of fake stochasticity , as well as passing on the content .
The final stage effect is a system that does n’t reveal any metadata about sites visited or who is talk to who : consort to the researchers , all that an perceiver would be able-bodied to discern is how many entire users are connected , and how many are disconnect .
There are flaws , however : on a test hunt down on Amazon EC2 servers , the researchers simulate 1 million users , and successfully pass 15,000 substance per second , but with a response time of 44 seconds . That ’s better thaninternet over postman pigeon , but still too slow to really do anything but email .
[ MIT CSAILviaMIT intelligence ]
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