diff --git a/common/sphinx.c b/common/sphinx.c
index 80ab1adae..9155dd247 100644
--- a/common/sphinx.c
+++ b/common/sphinx.c
@@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ struct sphinx_path {
 
 	/* The individual hops on this route. */
 	struct sphinx_hop *hops;
+
+	/* If this is a rendez-vous onion, then the following node_id tells us
+	 * which node will be processing this onion and decompressing the
+	 * onion. It is used to generate the prefill obfuscation stream to
+	 * hide the fact that the onion was compressed from the next
+	 * node. NULL if this is not a rendez-vous onion, and shouldn't be
+	 * compressible. */
+	struct pubkey *rendezvous_id;
 };
 
 struct sphinx_path *sphinx_path_new(const tal_t *ctx, const u8 *associated_data)
@@ -64,6 +72,7 @@ struct sphinx_path *sphinx_path_new(const tal_t *ctx, const u8 *associated_data)
 	struct sphinx_path *sp = tal(ctx, struct sphinx_path);
 	sp->associated_data = tal_dup_talarr(sp, u8, associated_data);
 	sp->session_key = NULL;
+	sp->rendezvous_id = NULL;
 	sp->hops = tal_arr(sp, struct sphinx_hop, 0);
 	return sp;
 }
@@ -259,6 +268,36 @@ static bool generate_header_padding(void *dst, size_t dstlen,
 	return true;
 }
 
+static bool generate_prefill(void *dst, size_t dstlen,
+			     const struct sphinx_path *path,
+			     struct hop_params *params)
+{
+	u8 stream[2 * ROUTING_INFO_SIZE];
+	u8 key[KEY_LEN];
+	size_t fillerStart, fillerSize;
+
+	memset(dst, 0, dstlen);
+	for (int i = 0; i < tal_count(path->hops); i++) {
+		if (!generate_key(&key, RHO_KEYTYPE, strlen(RHO_KEYTYPE),
+				  &params[i].secret))
+			return false;
+
+		generate_cipher_stream(stream, key, sizeof(stream));
+
+		/* Sum up how many bytes have been used by previous hops,
+		 * that gives us the start in the stream */
+		fillerSize = 0;
+		for (int j = 0; j < i; j++)
+			fillerSize += sphinx_hop_size(&path->hops[j]);
+		fillerStart = ROUTING_INFO_SIZE - fillerSize - dstlen;
+
+		/* Apply the cipher-stream to the part of the filler that'll
+		 * be added by this hop */
+		xorbytes(dst, dst, stream + fillerStart, dstlen);
+	}
+	return true;
+}
+
 static void compute_blinding_factor(const struct pubkey *key,
 				    const struct secret *sharedsecret,
 				    u8 res[BLINDING_FACTOR_SIZE])
@@ -386,6 +425,39 @@ static void sphinx_write_frame(u8 *dest, const struct sphinx_hop *hop)
 	memcpy(dest + tal_bytelen(hop->raw_payload), hop->hmac, HMAC_SIZE);
 }
 
+static void sphinx_prefill_stream_xor(u8 *dst, size_t dstlen,
+				      const struct secret *shared_secret)
+{
+	u8 padkey[KEY_LEN];
+	generate_key(padkey, "prefill", 7, shared_secret);
+	xor_cipher_stream(dst, padkey, dstlen);
+}
+
+static void sphinx_prefill(u8 *routinginfo, const struct sphinx_path *sp,
+			   size_t prefill_size, struct hop_params *params)
+{
+	int num_hops = tal_count(sp->hops);
+	size_t fillerSize = sphinx_path_payloads_size(sp) -
+			    sphinx_hop_size(&sp->hops[num_hops - 1]);
+	size_t last_hop_size = sphinx_hop_size(&sp->hops[num_hops - 1]);
+	int prefill_offset =
+	    ROUTING_INFO_SIZE - fillerSize - last_hop_size - prefill_size;
+	u8 prefill[prefill_size];
+	struct secret shared_secret;
+
+	/* Generate the prefill stream, which cancels out the layers of
+	 * encryption that will be applied while wrapping the onion. This
+	 * leaves the middle, unused, section with all 0x00 bytes after
+	 * encrypting. */
+	generate_prefill(prefill, prefill_size, sp, params);
+	memcpy(routinginfo + prefill_offset, prefill, prefill_size);
+
+	/* Now fill in the obfuscation stream, which can be regenerated by the
+	 * node processing this onion. */
+	create_shared_secret(&shared_secret, sp->rendezvous_id, sp->session_key);
+	sphinx_prefill_stream_xor(routinginfo + prefill_offset, prefill_size, &shared_secret);
+}
+
 struct onionpacket *create_onionpacket(
 	const tal_t *ctx,
 	struct sphinx_path *sp,
@@ -402,6 +474,8 @@ struct onionpacket *create_onionpacket(
 	u8 nexthmac[HMAC_SIZE];
 	struct hop_params *params;
 	struct secret *secrets = tal_arr(ctx, struct secret, num_hops);
+	size_t payloads_size = sphinx_path_payloads_size(sp);
+	size_t max_prefill  = ROUTING_INFO_SIZE - payloads_size;
 
 	if (sphinx_path_payloads_size(sp) > ROUTING_INFO_SIZE) {
 		tal_free(packet);
@@ -435,6 +509,11 @@ struct onionpacket *create_onionpacket(
 
 	generate_header_padding(filler, sizeof(filler), sp, params);
 
+	if (sp->rendezvous_id != NULL)
+		/* FIXME: Fuzz this or expose to the caller to hide encoded
+		 * route length. */
+		sphinx_prefill(packet->routinginfo, sp, max_prefill, params);
+
 	for (i = num_hops - 1; i >= 0; i--) {
 		memcpy(sp->hops[i].hmac, nexthmac, HMAC_SIZE);
 		generate_key_set(&params[i].secret, &keys);