DeTorrent: An Adversarial Padding-only Traffic Analysis Defense. (arXiv:2302.02012v2 [cs.CR] UPDATED)

While anonymity networks like Tor aim to protect the privacy of their users,
they are vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks such as Website Fingerprinting
(WF) and Flow Correlation (FC). Recent implementations of WF and FC attacks,
such as Tik-Tok and DeepCoFFEA, have shown that the attacks can be effectively
carried out, threatening user privacy. Consequently, there is a need for
effective traffic analysis defense.

There are a variety of existing defenses, but most are either ineffective,
incur high latency and …

adversarial aim analysis anonymity attacks correlation defense effectively fingerprinting flow networks padding privacy protect tor traffic traffic analysis user privacy vulnerable website