Merging Traffic to Improve Privacy and Performance

Most privacy enhancing technologies are generally either aiming to achieve low-latency or high privacy at the cost of a
high-latency. Low-latency privacy tools are often vulnerable to traffic analysis and use techniques like padding or
traffic shaping to mitigate the impact of traffic analysis. Those techniques add overhead to the execution.

Typically, each privacy enhancing technology uses its own physical infrastructure. However, running such infrastructure
is costly or requires a strong community to operate parts of the infrastructure. In this poster, we explore how we could
use a distributed network to operate multiple privacy enhancing technologies on top of it.