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Glossary

What is a cover traffic?

Cover traffic is decoy messages mixed in with real ones so that an observer cannot tell when you are actually communicating.

Even with content encrypted and senders hidden, the timing of your messages can leak your activity pattern. Cover traffic defeats this by producing decoy transactions indistinguishable from real ones.

PrivaMesh uses cover traffic so that timing and frequency analysis on the chain gets no usable signal - an observer cannot separate a genuine send from noise.

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