[41714] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca)
Wed Oct 18 14:15:14 1995
From: s1018954@aix2.uottawa.ca
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 14:10:38 -0400 (EDT)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9510181314.C103772-0100000@aix2>
On Wed, 18 Oct 1995 I wrote:
> 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
Nah. I'll take it back. Send encrypted through usenet, receive
encrypted through usenet. Best of both, but very slow and only good for
voluntary mail reception. You could also have an agent doing this
scanning for msgs and posting unencrypted (or send mail to an
unwitting spam victim). While it protects all but the last mailer almost
completely, it's far slower than remailernet and only protects against
traffic analysis.
