[24376] in Cypherpunks
Re: c'punks top 5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Cooper)
Tue Dec 20 18:10:45 1994
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 17:29:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Jonathan Cooper <entropy@IntNet.net>
To: Adam Shostack <adam@bwh.harvard.edu>
Cc: jonathon.fletcher@psych.stir.ac.uk, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199412202030.PAA11794@bwh.harvard.edu>
> 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.)
In that case, you could make a local daemon software "wedge" that
you'd connect to that would open an encrypted connection to the proxy.
Should be rather easy. Like I said before, implementation doesn't seem
incredibly hard, but I've not seen a deluge of people offering up their
boxes for this use.
-jon
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