[82698] in Cypherpunks
Re: Jeff's Side of the Story.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ryan Anderson)
Wed Jul 2 12:40:12 1997
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 1997 11:53:56 -0400 (edt)
From: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
To: Kent Crispin <kent@songbird.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@algebra.com
In-Reply-To: <19970702074006.19127@bywater.songbird.com>
Reply-To: Ryan Anderson <randerso@ece.eng.wayne.edu>
On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Kent Crispin wrote:
> The non-deterministic retention time in the network could probably be
> solved, but at the expense of some significant complexity. I have
> not been able to think of a secure way to do it, however. [If the
> remailers know and trust each other, the problem is easy.]
Remailers using this could be configured to not modify the "date" header
until final delivery. Then you can base the probablity of final delivery
upon some function of date/time or another header
"X-Remailer-Max-Delay-Time:" If you're worried about traffic analysis,
it is possible to randomly modify the date/time header by small amounts
at each hop. (This however only helps and somewhat loaded systems..)
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