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Re: Remailers and ecash (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Choate)
Wed Oct 1 13:25:08 1997

From: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>
To: cypherpunks@ssz.com (Cypherpunks Distributed Remailer)
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 11:24:41 -0500 (CDT)
Reply-To: Jim Choate <ravage@ssz.com>

Forwarded message:

> Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 11:03:36 -0400
> From: Anonymous <anon@anon.efga.org>
> Subject: Re: Remailers and ecash

> Using a remailer doesn't hide the fact that the sender is using a
> remailer.  An eavesdropper who monitors incoming messages to the
> remailers can easily learn who is using them.  A constant bandwidth
> connection will at least disguise *when* the messages are sent.

Huh? An eavsdropper can't use a clock to note when the packet was
sent?

I don't think so...


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