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Yeah, Tor as a whole, and Hidden Services specifically are very vulnerable to traffic analysis attacks.

I'd love to see a project with a real focus on anonymous publishing of content. Tor's original goal was anonymous retrieval of content, with anonymous publishing just added on as a secondary goal.

In order to make anonymous publishing robust against traffic analysis, it may be necessary to sacrifice the "real-time" goal that Tor has.

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IMHO you'd have to distribute the data and the computation so that there is no single point to find.

Agreed. Some ideas for the resistance of traffic analysis in the provision of Tor hidden services: layered architecture with aggressive caching at edge nodes, non-deterministic latency or update fetch algorithm (eg. random) between nodes, use of push rather than pull (edgier nodes have no knowledge of the location of content-publishing parent, only its key to auth inbound updates as they are supplied from unique addresses periodically) where feasible.

Freenet and now Maidsafe

Freenet is only good for static pages as I recall.

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