[81142] in Cypherpunks
Re: Who "invented" remailers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Jun 4 04:32:43 1997
Date: Wed, 04 Jun 1997 01:06:25 -0700
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@Algebra.COM
In-Reply-To: <v0310280cafba70127c0a@[207.167.93.63]>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
At 06:27 PM 6/3/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>(There are important issues, discussed by several of us several years ago,
>and more recently by Wei Dai and Lucky Green, dealing with correlation
>analysis of messages sent and messages received...esentially pattern
>analysis.
This type of analysis is unlikely to provide useful results for
high-latency systems such as remailers. However, this analysis can be very
fruitful on near real time systems such as ill-designed chained http
anonymizers.
[Tim of course knows this, I just want to make sure that this is
universally understood.]
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