DataSoft/Nova — Issue #14: Create bandwidth chaff to disrupt passive reconnaissance
Author: DataSoft
Created: 2012-02-16 19:24:08+00:00
State: open

Eavesdropping, or passive reconnaissance, is a dangerous threat which is undetectable due to the attacker never transmitting any data. NOVA will disrupt this effort with fake communications between Haystack nodes.

Important things to consider:

- Make sure the messages are believable. IE: They really do look like the traffic they're supposed to be. (Traffic analysis?) These messages can backfire (and identify Haystack nodes) if they aren't believable.

- Be sensitive to amount of traffic being sent. Bandwidth might be precious. So make this configurable and adhere to it strictly.