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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Garlic routing[1] is a variant of onion routing that encrypts multiple messages together to make it more difficult[2] for attackers to perform traffic analysis and to increase the speed of data transfer.[3]

First sentence. Check up the linked article as source.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ok, technically still vulnerable in the sense that if you transfer a huge file in excess of other parts of the bundle, it might be identifiable by a bad actor, but that's really misleading, since i2p has a lot of built in logic that makes that scenario pretty unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not only huge files. At the end of the article the author goes on about changing the load or manipulating the timing of the traffic.

For both you need to be part of the network and (to some degree) the traffic you want to trace needs to go through a node you are controlling if i understand it correctly. With increasing size it becomes more difficult.