[41710] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca)
Wed Oct 18 13:15:02 1995
From: s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 13:08:09 -0400 (EDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
On Wed, 18 Oct 1995, Hal wrote:
> Modemac proposes sending messages to remailers via newsgroup postings.
>
A fair amount of alt.test postings seem to be pgp'd (though a lot were
Detweiler Blacknet tentacles, not that I've checked since Tim's Blacknet key
was factored ). There was also an alt.anonymous.messages or something
along those lines. Bad propagation.
It seems to me that receiving messages through newsgroups (sent through
remailernet) and having them retrieved automatically by your newsreader
might be a better method of defeating traffic analysis. Sounds like Vinge's
piece in True Names about downloading the entire world bbs. All you'd need
to do here would be to scan your local feed of alt.test .
While this would work in the short run, with a low level of users, in a
high usage scenario, you'd post a destinated pseudonym (you might want it
encrypted) in alt.test along with the name of the specific newsgroup the
actual message would be posted to. Saves computing power.
