[tahoe-lafs-trac-stream] [tahoe-lafs] #2018: padding to hide the size of plaintexts

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#2018: padding to hide the size of plaintexts
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     Reporter:  zooko    |      Owner:  nejucomo
         Type:           |     Status:  new
  enhancement            |  Milestone:  undecided
     Priority:  normal   |    Version:  1.10.0
    Component:  code-    |   Keywords:  confidentiality privacy compression
  encoding               |  newcaps research
   Resolution:           |
Launchpad Bug:           |
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Changes (by nikita):

 * cc: me+tahoetrac@… (added)


Comment:

 Some other useful metrics: the minimum bucket size (which is essentially
 min-entropy) and the average bucket size (which I think is related to
 guessing entropy but I haven't done the math yet), where a bucket is a
 collection of files that pad to the same length.

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Ticket URL: <https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2018#comment:16>
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