[51427] in Cypherpunks
Re: (Fwd) Gov't run anon servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Howland)
Tue Mar 5 05:42:38 1996
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 11:38:51 +0100
From: Gary Howland <gary@kampai.euronet.nl>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Hal wrote:
> However, if I were a computer-savvy law enforcement agent, and I wanted
> to track messages through one of my remailers, I would try a
> technological approach. I would first break the key for my remailer.
> That is trivial. The passphrase is in PLAINTEXT in the script file
> which runs the remailer!. It has to be. That is true of all automated
> remailers.
The passphrase could be kept in memory and entered
every time the system is started.
Gary
