traffic padding
1. In COMSEC, a countermeasure that generates spurious data in transmission media to make traffic analysis or decryption more difficult. [2382-pt.8]
2. In reliability techniques, see pilot-make-busy circuit.
3. Generation of spurious communications or data units to disguise the amount of real data units being sent. [INFOSEC-99]
4. The generation of spurious instances of communication, spurious data units and/or spurious data within data units [7498-2].