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Santiago sender sends two messages: "Will X serve Y for Z? Please respond at
W.", and "X will (not) serve Y for Z at U."
:Fucking-with-you Replies: During World War II (IIRC), the RAF confused the
German air force by alternating the altitudes of their fighters and bombers
(doing it wrong, flying the fighters *beneath* the bombers). Apparently the
Germans were most confused when the RAF did it wrong once every seven
flights. Perhaps we should do the same?
:Fucking-with-you Replies: An urban legend: During World War II, the RAF
confused the German air force by alternating the altitudes of their fighters
and bombers (doing it wrong, flying the fighters *beneath* the bombers).
Apparently the Germans were most confused when the RAF did it wrong once
every seven flights. Whether or not it's true, it implies a lesson:
Confuse adversaries by intentionally doing it wrong, sometimes. Answer a
request with garbage, irrelevant HTTP codes, or silence.
Confuse adversaries by intentionally doing it wrong, sometimes. We could
answer a bum Santiago request with garbage, irrelevant HTTP codes, or
silence.
:Onion Routing: What can we learn from Tor itself? Maybe not a lot. Maybe a
bit. That we don't allow untrusted connections is an incredible limitation