One of the tactics discussed as a measure to defend against traffic correlation/timing attacks, is to have your Tor client sending traffic on a consistent basis.
For example: If a client was always sending traffic 24x7, it would be more difficult to differentiate the user traffic from the benign traffic.
Are there any tools that do this or something similar? I'm looking for tools that could replay, generate, randomize, or simulate traffic going over a Tor client connection.
This blog post might help https://blog.torproject.org/blog/experimental-defense-website-traffic-fingerprinting it's not specifically on correlation/timing attacks but it contains the following sentence:
the researchers point out that a Firefox addon that simply performs background HTTP requests concurrent to normal user activity was enough to foil their classifier.
I did some digging to see if I could find such an add-on and I found this. http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-generate-fake-traffic-using-the-Tor-Browser/
Using the Tor Browser go to the following Mozilla plug-in recourse center and download the reload every plug-in:
I went to the add-on page and typed in "reload every" and it was the first result. I haven't tried it yet but you can set a time (the minimum seems to be 5 seconds) and the add-on will reload the current page every set number of seconds. Opening something like Wikipedia in tab 1 and reloading every 5 seconds while you use other tabs for the tor traffic you are trying to protect seems like a decent way to use this. If you want to generate more traffic you should be able to make the add-on reload several tabs at the same time.
Not sure if this is exactly what you are looking for but if it works like I expect, it should fall under the category of the "replay traffic going through Tor" part of your question. I couldn't find the name of the add-on that the blog post was referring to but perhaps there is an even better add-on that I didn't find.
