[42094] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anonymity: A Modest Proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Oct 23 23:14:05 1995
To: tien@well.sf.ca.us (Lee Tien)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 1995 18:52:11 -0800."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 22:14:28 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Lee Tien writes:
> How difficult is it to forge headers?
Trivial. If you want to make even the Received: headers look right, it
takes a bit more work, but its possible.
> How difficult is it to trace a message to the actual sender if the
> header is forged?
If they know what they are doing, its very hard.
Perry
