[47100] in Cypherpunks
Re: Novel use of Usenet and remailers to mailbomb from luzskru@cpcnet.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin])
Fri Jan 12 20:04:09 1996
From: "Ed Carp [khijol SysAdmin]" <erc@dal1820.computek.net>
To: lull@acm.org (John Lull)
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 18:53:33 -0600 (CST)
Cc: abostick@netcom.com, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <30f6de9e.28100489@smtp.ix.netcom.com> from "John Lull" at Jan 12, 96 10:25:53 pm
Reply-To: ecarp@netcom.com
> The remailer could calculate a hash for the body of each encrypted
> message received (the same portion which will be decrypted by PGP),
> tabulate the last few thousand hashes, and simply discard any messages
> with a duplicate hash. The target of the attack would receive only
> the first copy of the message.
That wouldn't keep the mailer from getting choked up pretty quickly,
though, especially if it's on the end of a < T1 line.
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