Time to switch to i2P?

[Cubic Earth]

Fake data is just some real data padded and then encrypted. There is no way to distinguish the two apart without the decryption keys. The fake data is simply generated by the sender, and then discarded on the receiving end.

This reminds me of mp3's. Music used to be encoded as constant bit rate (CBR), now there are more variable bit rate (VBR) files. We are simply going backwards with the technology.

If you have a node that is receiving the data then you know what is fake (because you disregard it) and what is real (because you continue to relay it)

Excellent point.  Unfortunately.

[justusranvier]

If you have a node that is receiving the data then you know what is fake (because you disregard it) and what is real (because you continue to relay it)

Good thing we were talking about protecting against traffic analysis by a passive third party attacker instead of a peer.

[deluxeCITY]

If you have a node that is receiving the data then you know what is fake (because you disregard it) and what is real (because you continue to relay it)

Good thing we were talking about protecting against traffic analysis by a passive third party attacker instead of a peer.

It is still a valid point and something that needs to be overcome in order to prevent your identity from being discovered by an attacker. If you only solve for one problem while ignoring others you are doing nothing to protect yourself.

[justusranvier]

If you have a node that is receiving the data then you know what is fake (because you disregard it) and what is real (because you continue to relay it)

Good thing we were talking about protecting against traffic analysis by a passive third party attacker instead of a peer.

It is still a valid point and something that needs to be overcome in order to prevent your identity from being discovered by an attacker. If you only solve for one problem while ignoring others you are doing nothing to protect yourself.

https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Darknet

https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Papers#Small-world_networks

[deluxeCITY]

If you have a node that is receiving the data then you know what is fake (because you disregard it) and what is real (because you continue to relay it)

Good thing we were talking about protecting against traffic analysis by a passive third party attacker instead of a peer.

It is still a valid point and something that needs to be overcome in order to prevent your identity from being discovered by an attacker. If you only solve for one problem while ignoring others you are doing nothing to protect yourself.

https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Darknet

https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Papers#Small-world_networks

Anything that reaches any kind of scale would potentially be vulnerable to an active attacker as "friend-of-friend" connections are visible so an attacker would need to become "friends" with popular nodes   

[TechorMarketing]

Please support this I2P proposal on Stack Exchange:

https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/99297/i2p

Although the proposal was posted by a Monero developer it is meant to benefit the entire I2P community, not Monero specifically (Monero has its own Stack Exchange proposal already https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/98617/monero)

If you are interested in the C++ I2P router project  happening now you can track its progress here:
https://github.com/monero-project/kovri