[82477] in Cypherpunks
Re: Anonymous browsing (was Re: Getting Back to our Radical Roots)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Wed Jun 25 19:45:15 1997
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 15:59:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Jeremey Barrett <jeremey@bluemoney.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970625153558.00840200@descartes.bluemoney.com>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Jeremey Barrett wrote:
> The trick is to design a system where an eavesdropper can't correlate
> a connection into the anonymous network to one coming out. Such a system will
>
> almost certainly involve some sort of "personal proxy" running on your own
> machine. It might maintain a constant bandwidth to the anonymous network, but
>
> that's sub-optimal since most people like their bandwidth for other things.
The trick for users might be to move everything through the DC net. That way
you take a max. hit of 50% loss of bandwidth. The problem would likely be
worse for intermediate nodes. Need to think about this some more. There
is a solution...
--Lucky
