[24368] in Cypherpunks
Re: c'punks top 5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Tue Dec 20 15:56:01 1994
From: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
To: entropy@IntNet.net (Jonathan Cooper)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 94 15:30:53 EST
Cc: jonathon.fletcher@psych.stir.ac.uk, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SV4.3.91.941220141136.28927B-100000@xcalibur>; from "Jonathan Cooper" at Dec 20, 94 2:12 pm
Jonathan Cooper wrote:
| > > 1. anonymous http proxy servers ("re-webbers")
| >
| > What is wanted/meant for these ?
|
| A proxy server for HTTP transport so that one could access the web
| anonymously. I don't think coding is the problem here; one could be
| easily hacked out in perl, or you could use CERN HTTPD as a proxy
| server. I think the problem is finding someone who will offer up their
| machine as a place to run this service.
It might also be nice to encrypt the connection from client to
proxy. Otherwise, this service only protects you from the server
knowing who you are. If you add encryption, then it begins to offer
anonymity agianst people watching the proxy. (Assuming there are
multiple connections to the proxy.)
Adam
--
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
