[87331] in Cypherpunks
Re: Remailers and ecash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Sun Sep 28 22:49:54 1997
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 03:22:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
In-Reply-To: <21baeb41178929e645fe1fc688d0b164@anon.efga.org>
Reply-To: Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to>
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Anonymous wrote:
>
> Nonsense. Type 1 remailers offer a certain level of security. It is
> suitable for many applications. Type 1 remailers require a fairly
> determined attacker to thwart. They would certainly keep you safe
> from the IRS, but maybe not the NSA.
>
> Even if you were running a child kidnapping ring and failing to report
> the income, you would be pretty safe using Type 1 remailers. The NSA
> would never take the chance of revealing their capabilities just to
> save a few kids.
I disagree. The entire Type 1 networks can be trivially analyzed. It
doesn't require an NSA for this. A single person that understands mixes
and a few hackers to compromise some of the upstream, downstream servers,
not even the remailers themselves, could do it.
Type 1 remailers are fun toys. No more.
-- Lucky Green <shamrock@cypherpunks.to> PGP encrypted email preferred.
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