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Sounds good until (for example) you find out the SSH client library wasn't queueing up packets ahead of time, but instead building them at send time, and a chaff packet takes less time to build than a real packet... so many ways to get side-channeled.


Crypto requires a good source of random entropy. I suppose if you want more traffic for obscurity, you'll also have to find more random bits. Without enough entropy, you'd sacrifice security for obscurity. Just my ¢2, ymmv, etc




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