Establishing a connection in a packet-switched communication network

A node for a packet-switched communication network, said node being configured to establish a connection with a further node of said packet-switched communication network, said node being configured to:

• transmit to said further node a first connection establishing packet;
• and
• in response to reception of a second connection establishing packet transmitted by said further node in response to reception of said first connection establishing packet, transmitting to said further node a third connection establishing packet,
• wherein said node is configured to obfuscates an end-to-end round trip time (RTT) of communication between the said node and said further node by transmitting said third connection establishing packet in response to reception of said second connection establishing packet after a predefined wait time TW has lapsed since reception of said second connection establishing packet, and
• the predefined wait time TW is unknown to parties not authorized by an entity managing said first node and is a value chosen at random from a preselection range.

A packet-switched communication network comprising a first node and a second node configured to establish a connection between them, wherein:

• said first node is configured to transmit to said second node a first connection establishing packet;
• said second node is configured to transmit to said first node a second connection establishing packet in response to reception of said first connection establishing packet;
• and
• said first node is further configured to transmit to said second node a third connection establishing packet in response to reception of said second connection establishing packet,
• wherein said first node is configured to obfuscate an end-to-end round trip time (RTT) of communication between the first node and the second node by transmitting transmit said third connection establishing packet in response to reception of said second connection establishing packet after a predefined wait time TW has lapsed since reception of said second connection establishing packet, and
• the predefined wait time TW is unknown to parties not authorized by an entity managing said first node and is a value chosen at random from a preselection range.