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Traffic-correlation attack defenses

Defenses against traffic-correlation attacks include padding, timing obfuscation, dummy traffic, and AI-based countermeasures.

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How do traffic‑correlation attacks work in practice and what academic research documents their feasibility?

(end-to-end or flow-correlation) attacks match observable patterns at a communication’s ingress and egress to deanonymize users without breaking cryptography, and a large body of academic work demonst...